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The Civil War: The Story of the War with Maps
M David Detweiler
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Description for The Civil War: The Story of the War with Maps
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 282 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 592.
The Civil War: The Story of the War with Maps combines the colorful, detailed maps of an atlas with the vivid storytelling of the best narratives to piece together the nation-spanning jigsaw puzzle of the American Civil War. See the conflict develop from a few small armies into total war engulfing the whole South. The campaigns and battles are all here, with maps zooming in on the maneuvering and attacking armies: Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, the Wilderness, Atlanta, and more. The nationwide perspective--absent from so many other books and shown here on full-page maps--connects these ... Read more
The Civil War: The Story of the War with Maps combines the colorful, detailed maps of an atlas with the vivid storytelling of the best narratives to piece together the nation-spanning jigsaw puzzle of the American Civil War. See the conflict develop from a few small armies into total war engulfing the whole South. The campaigns and battles are all here, with maps zooming in on the maneuvering and attacking armies: Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, the Wilderness, Atlanta, and more. The nationwide perspective--absent from so many other books and shown here on full-page maps--connects these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, United States
ISBN
9780811714495
SKU
V9780811714495
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About M David Detweiler
M. David Detweiler graduated from Yale and has worked as a journalist and editor and published short stories and novels. He was the key editor for Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps. Detweiler is an amateur military history buff, composer, and sometime fly angler. President and CEO of Stackpole Inc. for the past quarter century, he lives in ... Read more
Reviews for The Civil War: The Story of the War with Maps
I heartily recommend it to anyone with an interest in the American Civil War, even if just in passing, as this book will stimulate that taste even more. I think the highest praise I can offer concerns its accessibility - I found my thirteen year old son reading it over breakfast one day, and then I had to rescue it ... Read more