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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Characterby Jonathan ShayISBN 0684813211 (0-684-81321-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Aftermath: The Remnants of Warby Donovan WebsterISBN 067975153X (0-679-75153-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991by Eric HobsbawmISBN 0679730052 (0-679-73005-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scottby John S. D. EisenhowerISBN 0684844516 (0-684-84451-6)
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All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartimeby William H. RehnquistISBN 0679767320 (0-679-76732-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime'Book summary:In the first hectic days of the American Civil War, the future of the Union was in doubt. Troops traveling to defend Washington were waylaid by mobs in Maryland. In the midst of this crisis, Abraham Lincoln sought to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to permit the military to detain those who were interfering with the prosecution of the war. When the Supreme Court limited his ability to do so, Lincoln complained that the Court was allowing "all the laws, but one, go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated." Eventually, civil liberties were curtailed for the duration of the Civil War--as they would be again in World Wars I and II.
That Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist's analysis of civil liberties in wartime is entitled All the Laws but One hints where he comes down on the subject. Rehnquist acknowledges and criticizes the excesses of civil liberties violations in wartime--during World War I, for example, editorial cartoonists critical of the government were prosecuted for sedition. But he defends the need to curtail some liberties in emergency situations--including, surprisingly, some instances of the evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans that took place during World War II. Rehnquist's style can be disjointed at times--as when cursory biographical information of key players seems to have been tacked on to fill out the otherwise slim volume--but the historical analysis of martial law and other Civil War controversies, which comprises the overwhelming majority of the book, remains fascinating. --Ted Frank [via]
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American Military Equipage, 1851-1872: A Description by Word and Picture of What the American Solider, Sailor, and Marine of These Years Wore and Carby Frederick P. ToddISBN 0684168626 (0-684-16862-6)
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Anatomy of Aircraftby GunstonISBN 068140714X (0-681-40714-X)
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Ashes of Glory: Richmond at Warby Ernest B. FurgursonISBN 0679746609 (0-679-74660-9)
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Battle of Cowpensby Kenneth RobertsISBN 0686676475 (0-686-67647-5)
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The Bitter Years; The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940-May 1945.by Richard PetrowISBN 0688002757 (0-688-00275-7)
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The Blitzkrieg Storyby Charles MessengerISBN 0684148013 (0-684-14801-3)
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Borodino and the War of 1812by Christopher DuffyISBN 0684131730 (0-684-13173-0)
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Byzantium: The Empire of New Romeby Cyril A. MangoISBN 0684167689 (0-684-16768-9)
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Chancellorsville and Gettysburgby Abner DoubledayISBN 068121631X (0-681-21631-X)
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Charlie Companyby Peter Goldman, Tony FullerISBN 0688015492 (0-688-01549-2)
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Churchill: An Unruly Lifeby Rose NormanISBN 0684840340 (0-684-84034-0)
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The Civil War Dictionaryby Mark Mayo BoatnerISBN 0679733922 (0-679-73392-2)
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Clash of Titans: World War II at Seaby Walter J. BoyneISBN 0684839148 (0-684-83914-8)
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Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. Pow Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam Warby George J. VeithISBN 0684835142 (0-684-83514-2)
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Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan-And Why Truman Dropped the Bombby Thomas B. Allen, Norman PolmarISBN 0684804069 (0-684-80406-9)
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The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writingby David KahnISBN 0684831309 (0-684-83130-9)
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Command of the Seasby John F. LehmanISBN 068418995X (0-684-18995-X)
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The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U. S. Army Special Forcesby Anna SimonsISBN 0684828162 (0-684-82816-2)
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Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custerby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0684832755 (0-684-83275-5)
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bombby Richard RhodesISBN 0684824140 (0-684-82414-0)
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Includes 94 archival photographs and a glossary with brief descriptions of the hundreds of people interviewed and discussed in the book. Author Richard Rhodes won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his previous atomic tome, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. [via]
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The Days of the French Revolutionby Christopher HibbertISBN 0688007465 (0-688-00746-5)
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Deeds of Valor: How America's Civil War Heroes Won the Congressional Medal of Honorby W.F. Beyer, O.F. Keydel, Walter F. Beyer, Oscar F. KeydelISBN 0681415673 (0-681-41567-3)
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Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine: A Biography of the Black Princeby Richard BarberISBN 0684158647 (0-684-15864-7)
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Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odysseyby Robert Knox Sneden, Nelson D. Lankford, Charles F. BryanISBN 0684863669 (0-684-86366-9)
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Eyewitness to the American Revolution: The Battles and Generals As Seen by an Army Surgeonby James ThacherISBN 0681006021 (0-681-00602-1)
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Fall of the Roman Empireby Michael GrantISBN 0684829568 (0-684-82956-8)
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First Air War, 1914-1918by Lee KennettISBN 0684871203 (0-684-87120-3)
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G.I: The American Soldier in World War IIby Lee KennettISBN 0684184915 (0-684-18491-5)
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Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret Warby Judith Miller, William J. Broad, Stephen EngelbergISBN 0684871599 (0-684-87159-9)
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Gettysburg : A Journey in Timeby William A. FrassanitoISBN 0684146967 (0-684-14696-7)
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Gettysburg, Day Threeby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0684859157 (0-684-85915-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gettysburg, Day Three'Book summary:On July 1 and 2, 1863, armies commanded by George Meade and Robert E. Lee clashed in the hilly farm country surrounding Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Badly bloodied, the outcome of the battle still uncertain, they fought on into a third day, one whose close would decide the Civil War.
Jeffry Wert, a Pennsylvania high school teacher and well-published scholar of Civil War history, offers a sweeping account of that third day of battle, one that relies heavily on letters, diaries, and other primary sources. From those combatants, we learn of the "carnival of hell" that was Pickett's Charge, when "the incessant rattle of musketry sounded like the grinding of some huge mill." We read of the heroic Union defense of Culp's Hill against equally heroic Confederate attackers, of a stirring charge of Virginia cavalry that elicited "a murmur of admiration" from opposing Michigan horsemen led by George Armstrong Custer, and of the exhaustion and terror of ordinary soldiers, one of whom mused, "What men are these we slaughter like cattle and still they come at us?"
Like the battle itself on that final day at Gettysburg, Wert's narrative unfolds with breakneck speed, and sometimes with so much detail as to yield momentary confusion as it proceeds from one butchery to the next. Still, his account is painstakingly researched and very well written, and it deserves a place on the shelf alongside the work of Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote, and other popular historians of the Civil War. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Grantby Jean Edward SmithISBN 0684849275 (0-684-84927-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grant'Book summary:Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. Rather than capture enemy territory or march on Southern cities, he concentrated on engaging and defeating the Confederate armies in the field, and he pursued that strategy relentlessly. As president, he brought stability to the country after years of war and upheaval. He tried to carry out the policies of Abraham Lincoln, the man he admired above all others, and to a considerable degree he succeeded. Yet today, Grant is remembered as a brilliant general but a failed president. In this comprehensive biography, Jean Edward Smith reconciles these conflicting assessments of Grant's life. He argues convincingly that Grant is greatly underrated as a president. Following the turmoil of Andrew Johnson's administration, Grant guided the nation through the post- Civil War era, overseeing Reconstruction of the South and enforcing the freedoms of new African-American citizens. His presidential accomplishments were as considerable as his military victories, says Smith, for the same strength of character that made him successful on the battlefield also characterized his years in the White House. Grant was the most unlikely of military heroes: a great soldier who disliked the army and longed for a civilian career. After graduating from West Point, he served with distinction in the Mexican War. Following the war he grew stale on frontier garrison postings, despaired for his absent wife and children, and began drinking heavily. Heresigned from the army in 1854, failed at farming and other business endeavors, and was working as a clerk in the family leathergoods store when the Civil War began. [via]
Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns 1864-1865by William A. FrassanitoISBN 0684187043 (0-684-18704-3)
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Hearts in Atlantisby Stephen KingISBN 0684853515 (0-684-85351-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hearts in Atlantis'Book summary:Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads like a novel. The best is "Low Men in Yellow Coats," about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mom is impoverished, and so bitter that she barely loves him. King is as good as Spielberg or Steven Millhauser at depicting an enchanted kid's-eye view of the world, and his Harwich is realistically luminous to the tiniest detail: kids bashing caps with a smoke-blackened rock, a car grille "like the sneery mouth of a chrome catfish," a Wild Mouse carnival ride that makes kids "simultaneously sure they were going to live forever and die immediately."
Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."
Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo [via]
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History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peruby William H. PrescottISBN 0685285669 (0-685-28566-9)
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Livesby Alan BullockISBN 0679729941 (0-679-72994-1)
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Journal, Eighteen Eighty-Seven to Nineteen Tenby Jules RenardISBN 0685349640 (0-685-34964-0)
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The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?by Stephanie GutmannISBN 0684852918 (0-684-85291-8)
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Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nationby William C. DavisISBN 0684862948 (0-684-86294-8)
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A Line in the Sand : The Alamo in Blood and Memoryby Randy Roberts, James N. OlsonISBN 0684835444 (0-684-83544-4)
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The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost Warby Paul HendricksonISBN 067978117X (0-679-78117-X)
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The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0679740678 (0-679-74067-8)
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This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake. [via]More editions of The Man in the High Castle:
The Man Who Lost China: The First Full Biography of Chiang Kai-Shekby Brian Crozier, Eric ChouISBN 068414686X (0-684-14686-X)
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Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small Warby Michael KellyISBN 0679750142 (0-679-75014-2)
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Maximilian and Carlota: A Tale of Romance and Tragedyby Gene SmithISBN 0688001734 (0-688-00173-4)
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Monitor Chronicles : One Sailor's Account:Today's Campaign to Recover the Civil War Wreckby Mariners' Museum Newport News, Va. Staff, Denise RoyISBN 0684869977 (0-684-86997-7)
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Mud Soldiers: Life Inside the New American Armyby George WilsonISBN 0684189860 (0-684-18986-0)
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Napoleon on the Art of Warby Jay LuvaasISBN 0684872714 (0-684-87271-4)
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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biographyby Jack HurstISBN 067974830X (0-679-74830-X)
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The Nightingale's Songby Robert TimbergISBN 0684826739 (0-684-82673-9)
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Origins of the Second World Warby Alan J. TaylorISBN 0684829479 (0-684-82947-9)
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Our Vietnam : The War 1954-1975by A. J. LangguthISBN 0684812029 (0-684-81202-9)
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The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Missionby Martin MiddlebrookISBN 0684179830 (0-684-17983-0)
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Sheridan : The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridanby Morris, Roy, Jr.ISBN 0679743987 (0-679-74398-7)
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Shiloh:Bloody April: Bloody Aprilby Wiley SwordISBN 0688002714 (0-688-00271-4)
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Six Days in June: How Israel Won the 1967 Arab-Israeli Warby Eric HammelISBN 0684193906 (0-684-19390-6)
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Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Armyby Meirion Harries, Susie HarriesISBN 0679753036 (0-679-75303-6)
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Soul of the Sword : An Illustrated History of Weaponry and Warfare from Prehistory to the Presentby Robert L. O'Connell, John BatchelorISBN 0684844079 (0-684-84407-9)
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The Story of D-Day : June 6, 1944by Bliven, Bruce, Jr.ISBN 0679845038 (0-679-84503-8)
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The Superstrategists: Great Captains, Theorists, and Fighting Men Who Have Shaped the History of Warfareby John EltingISBN 0684183536 (0-684-18353-6)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0679729658 (0-679-72965-8)
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It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickenss most exciting booksa historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events. Famous for its vivid characters, including the courageous French nobleman Charles Darnay, the vengeful revolutionary Madame Defarge, and cynical Englishman Sydney Carton, who redeems his ill-spent life in a climactic moment at the guillotine ( It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done ), the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution, illuminated by Dickenss lively comedy.
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Thin Red Lineby James JonesISBN 0684155559 (0-684-15555-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thin Red Line'Book summary:An old Midwestern saying goes, "There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad." War seems to stretch that line almost to the breaking point. James Jones's classic World War II novel recounts with brutal honesty the stories of the men of C-for-Charlie Company as they struggle to hold on to their honor, their sanity, and their lives on Guadalcanal. Actor Joe Mantegna turns in an able performance, his voice expressing a roller coaster of emotions (though his Welsh accent may require some patience). Whether or not you agree with Jones that war is the "most heroic of all human endeavors," this recording will move you. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --C.B. Delaney [via]
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Manby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0679776664 (0-679-77666-4)
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Total War: Causes and Courses of the Second World Warby Peter CalvocoressiISBN 0679730915 (0-679-73091-5)
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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War IIby Jennet ConantISBN 0684872889 (0-684-87288-9)
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Ultra in the Westby Ralph BennettISBN 0684167042 (0-684-16704-2)
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American Westby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0684826976 (0-684-82697-6)
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Until the Endby Harold CoyleISBN 0684811405 (0-684-81140-5)
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The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared The Early Years of the CIAby Evan ThomasISBN 0684825384 (0-684-82538-4)
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Vietnam : The Necessary Warby Michael LindISBN 0684842548 (0-684-84254-8)
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Vietnam, the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflictby Michael LindISBN 0684870274 (0-684-87027-4)
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The War for the Unionby Allan NevinsISBN 0684104296 (0-684-10429-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War for the Union'Book summary:With The Organized War to Victory: 1864-1865, Allan Nevins completes his masterly study of the American Civil War. The qualities of clarity, absolute command of the sources, and full recognition of the drama inherent in the theme, which have distinguished the previous volumes can all be found here as well. And there is something more: a communication without sentimentality of the heartbreak of this national tragedy for the victors as well as the vanquished. ("He seemed," wrote one observer of President Lincoln, "to be in mourning for all the dead of all the endless battles.") Nevins provides the reader with an analysis of the social and economic effects of the conflict which is outstanding for wisdom and depth.Allan Nevins won the National Book Award for The Organized War to Victory: 1864-1865 and The Organized War: 1863-1864, the preceding volume in The War for the Union.All four volumes of the War for the Union are currently available from Konecky & Konecky. [via]
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War for the Union: The Organized War, 1863-1864by Allan NevinsISBN 0684104288 (0-684-10428-8)
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Why the North Won the Civil Warby T. Harry Williams, Norman A. Graebner, Henry Steele Commager, Richard Nelson Current, David Morris Potter, David Herbert DonaldISBN 0684825066 (0-684-82506-6)
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Madeby Walter Isaacson, Evan ThomasISBN 0684837714 (0-684-83771-4)
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The World Crisis: An Abridgment of the Classic 4-Volume History of World War Iby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0684194538 (0-684-19453-8)
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World War II : The Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941-1945by Norman Polmar, Thomas B. AllenISBN 0679770399 (0-679-77039-9)
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Writers on World War II : An Anthologyby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0679742344 (0-679-74234-4)
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Xenophonby J. AndersonISBN 068413666X (0-684-13666-X)
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The Year of Liberty: The History of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798by Thomas PakenhamISBN 0679748024 (0-679-74802-4)
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