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.The American Civil War and Its Origins 1848-1965 (Access to History S.)
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by: Alan Farmer

March 31, 2006
This series of books is great and this one is among the best that I've read - it is bigger and contains more detail than many of the others, encompassing the content from what were previously two civil war titles. The text is easy to read and clear and the book is packed with character profiles, maps, photos, cartoons and diagrams. 'Call-out boxes' and chapter questions encourage active rather than passive reading and I believe this has helped me understand and remember more of the details than might otherwise be the case.

A range of issues are covered, including: the home front, diplomacy, social conditions, economic differences between the north and south, the role of western expansion & the Mexican war, slavery and, of course, ... Read More:
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.The American Civil War (Essential Histories)
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by: Stephen D. Engle, Gary W. Gallagher, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Robert Krick

June 18, 2003
If you want to know about the civil war,how it came about? where,when and what happened? who the key player's were?Then this is the book for you!I wanted a book that was informative, yet written in an easily absorbing way.It is vivid without being boring,the only downside is that you find it very hard to put down!
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.If You Survive
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by: George Wilson

February 01, 1987
I dont often take the time to review books on here, but having recently re read this book, I think it is the least that I can do. It is a truly brilliant book written by a man who spent so long in the front line that he couldn't even cope with normal food when he came off the line. Amazing story, very well told.
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.The American Civil War: Causes, Courses and Consequences 1803-1877 (Access to History)
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by: Alan Farmer

June 27, 2008
This book is absolutely brilliant for anyone who wants to know more about the American civil war and the people who are involved with the civil war. I would reccomend this book with 100% confidence!
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.With Malice Toward None: Life of Abraham Lincoln, the
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by: Stephen B. Oates

1994-01
Stephen Oates' Without Malice portrays Abraham Lincoln in all his complexity; visionary, procrastinator, vacillating and revolutionary. The book tells Lincoln's life from his humble beginnings in Indiana, where he was born into a frontier family. Thereafter Lincoln's family moved to Illinois and Kentucky. Early life for the great man was hard. He seemed to have made up his mind early on to better himself intellectually and not be condemned to working "with his hands" all his life. Even though Lincoln was intellectually inclined he had a singular gift for connecting with the rural folk of his childhood: He knew how to wrestle and earn "respect" from the farm hands.

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.The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War (Canto): An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War (Canto)
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by: Gerald Brenan

September 13, 1990
You can ignore the origins of Spanish Civil War but they are absolutely known, not almost ununderstandable as I think happens with First World War. Spain, owing to complex causes beginning with the arriving of gold and silver in big amounts from America, became a country disaccustomed to work excepting the poorer people. Catholic Church, ever in the side of the powerful, attracted hate of humble people and obstructed science. This situation lasted 3- 4 centuries of revolts. It has been said the putsch was the work of army officers, not generals or admirals, excepting three or four essentials with Mola and Franco in the head. Well, in 1975 Franco died and was done the Transición, a rational but complex process, as many people lost the war and had to forgot forcefully. ... Read More:
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.Gettysburg
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by: Stephen W. Sears

November 03, 2004
On July 1, 1863, leading elements of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, operating in Pennsylvania, stumbled into elements of the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Gen. George G. Meade. Against the better judgment of both commanders, the armies were drawn into a full-fledged battle which raged for three days, and left some 51,000 men killed, wounded, captured or just plain missing. More importantly, unbeknownst at the time, the battle marked a turning point in the war, the Confederates had reached their high water mark and the future moved on toward inevitable defeat.

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.Atlas of the Civil War
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from: Running Press Book Publishers

February 23, 2005
James McPherson didn't write the 'Atlas of the Civil War'. He did, however, write introductory essays to each year of the war, as well as prologues and epilogues. They're fantastic: well-written and -argued, with lavish full-page pictures, and although there's too little reflection on certain issues (e.g. the (il)legality of secession), that's simply not the point. The rest of the atlas is also gorgeously illustrated, with highly detailed maps and well-chosen quotes. The accompanying articles, however, are inferior, especially typographically. There seems, for instance, to be no agreement as to whether a word split should be hyphenated (Con-/federate or Con/federate), and typograhpical errors also occur frequently. Apart from these minor issues, the entire atlas is great. I ... Read More:
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.A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle
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by: James Donovan

April 03, 2008
It starts long before the campaign and ends much more later on.
It lefts no stone unturned, and actually uses all the data available in a tour de force of rigour.
Actually if you are not going to read more then a book about it this one will do perfectly the job.
It is neither pro-Custer or anti-Custer, makes a good job of simply saying what is known and formulating the best plausible guesses when explaining the parts of the fight harder to establish (there other authors are perhaps much more passionate in their arguments!).
Highly Recommended for what it is fair History without undue passion.

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.The Origins of the American Civil War: 1846-61 (Access to History)
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by: Alan Farmer

August 05, 1996
This book has helped me to understand the causes of the American civil war. It has helped to solidify my knowledge of the sectional conflict between north and south. The book reads well and is not to difficult to understand, it is must for all students studying the civil war and a good text for all people interested in the civil war. Its companion "The American Civil War and Reconstruction" is also essential to obtain a complete overview of the time period and the events during the war.
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