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The American Civil War (Essential Histories)
enlarge	Authors: Stephen D. Engle, Gary W. Gallagher, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Robert Krick Creator: James M. Mcpherson Publisher: Osprey Publishing Category: Book List Price: ~~Ł16.99~~ Buy New: Ł8.26 You Save: Ł8.73 (51%) New (29) Used (10) from Ł7.13 Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 19694 Media: Paperback Edition: New Ed Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 328 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2 Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.7 x 0.9 ISBN: 1841767360 Dewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9781841767369 ASIN: 1841767360 Publication Date: June 18, 2003 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Ships from U.S.A., to anywhere in the United Kingdom! Orders only take 3-5 days! We specialise in service to the U.K. and only ship airmail.


Customer Reviews: First rate account of America's civil war March 30, 2005 25 out of 25 found this review helpful 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! An good synthesis with interesting side articles March 30, 2004 26 out of 26 found this review helpful I read this volume aside "Battle cry of Freedom" from James McPherson, and although it is not as complete, it is quicker to read and contains the essential military developments of the civil war. What I really appreciate, though, are the quality of the illustrations (although some of the maps could have been better and more precise), but even more, the chapters aside the main events, focusing on specific portraits of civilians and soldiers living during this war. If I were to read this book again, I would read it before "Battle cry of Freedom", as a preliminary to understand it even better. Overall, I think this Osprey collection (Essential Histories) is excellent to awake (or not) your interest on a particular war or campaign and give you an incentive to do more research on a particular subject if you like the corresponding Osprey book, providing you a short but accurate bibliography for further reading, which is always useful for the amateur historian.