books about: confederate     books:     Confederate      What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (Vintage) Chandra Manning Vintage, 2008 Impressive Populist History Chandra Manning has written a book that turns a bright new light on Civil War history. Her book is as exciting as it is well-researched. Manning is out to show what the actual soldiers felt who did the fighting and the dying. Her writing is clear and accessible to the ...             General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse Joseph Glatthaar Free Press, 2008 A history of the Army of Northern Virginia This is a fascinating book. On the one hand, its depiction of the Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) is well known. On the other, it goes into considerable detail on the everyday lives of Lee's (and, earlier, Johnston's and Beauregard's) army. As such, it does add ...             Settling Accounts In at the Death (Settling Accounts) Harry Turtledove Del Rey, 2008 Must read to complete I wish Mr. Turtledove had continued the series. But this was a fitting was to end it. After 11 books, I can see why he wanted to end this series. A very good book, especially if you've read the other 10.             Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Tony Horwitz Vintage, 1999 Fun, fair & worth every penny As will be the case with all my reviews, I'm going to record my reaction to the book, not summarize it. If you want to know what the book is all about, read a few of the longer reviews (which, at the time of this writing, numbered about 250.) Or better yet, buy it; ...             The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War Jim Murphy Clarion Books, 1993 Wonderful intro to young soldiers lives in the Civil War Read this aloud with my children about 2 years ago. It sparked my son's interest in Civil War historical fiction. He is not an avid reader, but has read several civil war books including "Red Cap" by Clifton Wisler and just picked up "Across Five Aprils" for his ...             In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead James Lee Burke Avon, 1994 Haunting, modern, violent Louisiana Gothic.....Ex-cellent.... If you know already know the writings of J.L.B., then I need say no more. If you don't, but have a decent vocabulary and think you might enjoy some action packed stories with a sense of melancholy, a violent (yet literary and well meaning) narrator, and tales of ...             Company Aytch Samuel R. Watkins Plume, 1999 The best firsthand account of the war Sam Watkins is amazing and a part of you wishes he were still around signing books. There are primarily two first hand accounts of the Civil War that get qouted a lot this one and Eliha Hunt Rhodes's "All for the Union." I like this one the best because unlike ...             Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War Sam R. Watkins Touchstone, 2003 Military Memoir Marvel Surely themost informing view of the pasr is the personal diary or even memoir. Often in the military genre we find that what is written in a diary after the battle offers a ver different view than the mrmoir written some time later. Sam Watkins's memoir is the ...             Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart Jeffry D. Wert Simon & Schuster, 2008 Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography in decades of the famous Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart. Based on research in manuscript collections, personal memoirs and reminiscences, and regimental histories, this comprehensive volume reflects outstanding Civil War scholarship. James Ewell Brown Stuart was the premier cavalry ...             Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series ... Drew Gilpin Faust The University of North Carolina Press, 2004 Southern Elite White Women's World Turned Upside Down Mothers of Invention is a book by Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust (historian), who was appointed President of Harvard University in February 2007. This book is an excellent adjunct to any college level class on the Civil War period. Faust researched the letters, diaries and ...             Richard Brautigan : A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and the Hawkline Monster (Three ... Richard Brautigan Mariner Books, 1991 A hippie version of the Great Gatsby An episode of Rudy Maxa's "Smart Travels" devoted to San Francisco mentions that Angel Island was a fort during the Civil War. Why would San Francisco need a fort during in the Civil War? Rudy asks. Because, the park ranger tells him, the Confederate Army could have ...             The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War William W. Freehling Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Important like the rest of his work This like the rest of Freehling's work is important. In recent years a trend has developed to submerge the central issue of the civil war--slavery--in a myriad of other issues leading to the war and thus diminishing the importance of the war for the US and the World. ...             War Crimes Against Southern Civilians Walter Brian Cisco Pelican Publishing Company, 2007 War Crimes I have sometimes wondered if my paternal grandmother should have instilled in me such an intense antipathy toward Lincoln and the North by telling me the stories she heard firsthand from her grandmother who suffered some of Sherman's savageries in South Carolina, but ...             Lee Douglas Southall Freeman Scribner, 1997 Definitive, sort of...... From the time I was a toddler close to 60 years ago, I was taught that Robert E. Lee was, except for Jesus Christ, the greatest man who ever lived. A lifetime of study has confirmed my parents' opinion...I am NOT unbiased about General Lee. If Robert E. Lee was the ...             Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War ... Gary W. Gallagher The University of North Carolina Press, 2008 How we see the Civil War The Civil War is one of the most important events in American history, generating tons of books, magazines, memorials, paintings and statuary. The day the war ended, participants seem to have started books on their experience. Publishing has not stopped and seems to ...          products you might be interested in search for books anti-confederate, confederate, confederates, dispatches, slaveholding, southerners      toavi.com    web we recommend Fun, fair & worth every penny randomly chosen book: Black Out: A Novel