History - American from Blue & Grey Book Shoppe

From the back DJ: "This is the first scholarly, in-depth treatment of Civil War Soldier life published in the past 30 years. Johnny Rebs and Billy Yanks wrote more letters and reminiscences than any other group of American servicemen. ...And what those men felt, observed, and endured reinforces the opinion that while they left something to be desired as soldiers,… Read more about this item

From the back DJ: "This is the first scholarly, in-depth treatment of Civil War Soldier life published in the past 30 years. Johnny Rebs and Billy Yanks wrote more letters and reminiscences than any other group of American servicemen. ...And what those men felt, observed, and endured reinforces the opinion that while they left something to be desired as soldiers,… Read more about this item

From back cover: "The Definitive Account of the Day that Shaped the Twentieth Century." "[The author] draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most importand day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion were abandoned, and how ordinary soldiers and officers… Read more about this item

Quote from back cover: "Drawing on official statistics, newspapers, trade journals, letter and manuscript collections, scientific treatises, travel descriptions and just about anything else that could be revealing, Mr. Wallace's picture is all-encompassing. As an anthropologist he examines the work rituals, the religious and social organizations, the political interests and the family connections of the local population..." - Neil Harris,… Read more about this item

From the Time-Life series - The Old West. Gunfighters and justice. Civil War, Jesse James and much more. Lots of black & white, and color, photographs and illustrations, plus information. Book - Very Good condition. Beautiful Embossed and padded Leatherette Covers. Front cover has E. F. Ward's painting of a sheriff wearing the sheriff's star which stamps him as a gunfighter recruited… Read more about this item

From the Foreword: "The ten men whose lives are traced in the following pages are of the West. The three Indians - Almighty Voice, Gun-an-noot, and Tzouhalem - being born there, knew no other world than their limited tribal range, except for Gun-an-noot, who had a brief and deadly glimpse of the 'outside'." "The seven others, white men, were westward-seekers, who… Read more about this item

From back cover: "Seeking his fortune, R. H. Williams left the English navy in 1852 to farm in southwest Virginai. When that lost luster he went west and joined the 'Border Ruffians' who were fighting to make Kansas a slave state. By 1860 he was in Texas, and within another year he was riging with an irregular Confederate cavalry, battling… Read more about this item

From the Preface: This book represents an attempt to integrate pictorial and factual material about the Minnesota country from the mid-seventeenth century, when the earliest French explorers began to record their impressions of the area, to 1958, when the American commonwealth that took root and grew in this land of lakes and streams marked its centennial as the thirty-second state." Almost… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "In the summer of 1863 after the climactic battle at Vicksburg, Lincoln's government was more interested in Ulysses Simpson Grant than any other man alive." This book gives a "detailed and revealing portrait of Grant during the last year and a half of the war. Book - Good+ condition. Navy cloth over boards with gold gilt image on… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the United States Senate Chamber in Washington, D.C., and began beating renowned anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner with a cane until it splintered and the helpless Massachusetts senator lay unconscious and covered in blood. It was a retaliatory… Read more about this item

From back cover: "A Profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the war between the states." "The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike each identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side." This book measures the gap between those claims and draws… Read more about this item

From back cover: "In this unique series the Civil War comes vividly to life. Here are eyewitness accounts...by generals, journalists, and ordinary foot soldiers, both blue and gray." "Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the Fifth Corps records the dramatic final acts of the Civil War: Sheridan's rise, Warren's fall, and the slow inexorable stalking of Lee's forces across the battle-scarred countryside. ...Chamberlain… Read more about this item

Quote on back cover: "There is a magnificent unity to this story of Grant's leadership in both war and peace that is not found anywhere else. In this compelling narrative, Grant emerges more fascinating than ever before." - Doris Kearns Goodwin, authorof Team of Rivals and No Ordinary Time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history Black and white photo section… Read more about this item

From piece pasted on end paper (I believe it to be part of the original dust jacket): "...So incisive and vigorous is this record of heroism, gallantry, strife, and consusion, of colossal blunders and terrible tragedies, that one loses sight of the fact that he is reading history, and finds himself reliving battles, deciding policies, and what, and watching events… Read more about this item

From book: "My earliest serious photographs of the Southwest were made around 1928 and my most recent in 1975. ... My Southwest experience has been more or less continuous; the images are arranged for flow of meaning rather than of location and time." Book - Very Good- condition. Covers have some rubbing and bumping. The bottom corner shows some wear and… Read more about this item

From back cover: "Hawai'i's long and colorful history lives again through this collection of images that illuminate the past and, perhaps, define the present. The voyage of time has brought the Islands from a profound isolation to their position today as the Pacific crossroads, where sojourners and settlers from many lands meet and interact. It is the lessons of history,… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "Apomattox County [Virginia], formed in 1845 and named after the nearby river, was originally best know for growing tobacco. However, that dramatically changed in 1865 when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House." This book covers the history of churches, notable citizens, and special events. The photograph collections shows the… Read more about this item

From fron DJ flap: "The place and period described by Jay Monaghan in this book saw one of the bitterest conflicts in American history. In the territory created by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 hot-blooded abolitionists and slave-holders proved North and South irreconcilable, and their furious struggle deeply influenced national politics and hastened the advent of the Civil War." Book -… Read more about this item

Quote from back cover: "Landford's narrative captures the drama and complexity of this volatile period [and] reminds readers that, at many crucial pints, events could have taken a different path. Anyone interested in the background of our greatest national crisis will find Cry Havoc! hugely rewarding." - Gary W. Gallagher, author Book - Good condition. Light edge soiling and I noted… Read more about this item

From back cover: "Almost anyone growing up in rural America will be able to identify with the characters described in this book." Quote from back cover: "The Lutefisk Ghetto hits this reader zero to the bone because its author carefully dissects the folkways and mores of a little town." - Dave Wood, Solumnist, Minneapolis Tribune Book - Very Good+ condition. Very minimal… Read more about this item