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The Civil War An Illustrated History - 0679742778 PB NEW SEALED
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- Illustrated
- Subject
- History
- ISBN
- 9780679742777
- Book Title
- Civil War : an Illustrated History
- Item Length
- 10.9in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- History & Theory, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military / Pictorial
- Item Width
- 9.3in
- Item Weight
- 60.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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The companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series, with a new preface to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary With more than 500 illustrations: rare Civil War photographs--many never before published--as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps reproduced in full color It was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000 places--from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it and more than 600,000 men died in it. Not only the immensity of the cataclysm but the new weapons, the new standards of generalship, and the new strategies of destruction--together with the birth of photography--were to make the Civil War an event present ever since in the American consciousness. Thousands of books have been written about it. Yet there has never been a history of the Civil War quite like this one. A wealth of documentary illustrations and a narrative alive with original and energetic scholarship combine to present both the grand sweep of events and the minutest of human details. Here are the crucial events of the war: the firing of the first shots at Fort Sumter; the battles of Shiloh, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; the siege of Vicksburg; Sherman's dramatic march to the sea; the surrender at Appomattox. Here are the superb portraits of the key figures: Abraham Lincoln, claiming for the presidency almost autocratic power in order to preserve the Union; the austere Jefferson Davis, whose government disappeared almost before it could be formed; Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, seasoned generals of fierce brilliance and reckless determination. Here is the America in which the war was fought: The Civil War is not simply the story of great battles and great generals; it is also an elaborate portrait of the American people--individuals and families, northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, slaves and slaveowners, rich and poor, urban and rural--caught up in the turbulence of the times. An additional resonance is provided by four essays, the work of prominent Civil War historians. Don E. Fehrenbacher discusses the causes of the war; Barbara J. Fields writes about emancipation; James M. McPherson looks at the politics of the 1864 election; C. Vann Woodward speculates on how the war has affected the American identity. And Shelby Foote talks to filmmaker Ken Burns about wartime life on the battlefield and at home. A magnificent book. In its visual power, its meticulous research, its textual brilliance, and the humanity of its narrative, The Civil War will stand among the most illuminating and memorable portrayals of the American past.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679742778
ISBN-13
9780679742777
eBay Product ID (ePID)
169876
Product Key Features
Book Title
Civil War : an Illustrated History
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military / Pictorial
Publication Year
1992
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10.9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
9.3in
Weight
60.5 Oz
Item Weight
60.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E468.7
Publication Date
1992-09-29
Reviews
"An absorbing experience... A fine work of scholarship."- Boston Globe "Succeeds in evoking both the grandeur of the war and its basic humanity."- Chicago Tribune
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
89-043475
Dewey Decimal
973.7
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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