This book was edited by Robert Cowley, published in 2001, the narrative is 522 pages and is illustrated with black and white maps. Essays on the most vital conflict in our nation's history written by renowned historians and presented by the editor of the acclaimed WHAT IF? With My Face To The Enemy is a provocative and wide ranging anthology of essays on the Civil War, our nation's defining struggle and the first modern war in history. In thirty five illuminating essays and one hundred fifty thousand words, it examines the war from the perspectives crucial to it's outcome, the larger than life personalities of the important players from Lincoln to Lee, and the national strategies and and key battle tactics that shaped the four year long crisis. Contributors include the leading lights of Civil War scholarship: James M. McPherson, Stephen W. Sears, Gary W. Gallagher, David Herbert Donald, and twenty others. James McPherson's essays ponder three diverse, yet fascinating subjects: Abraham Lincoln's use of language and it's role in his victory, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee's failed Southern strategies, and Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs as a reflection of his superb generalship. Stephen W. Sears, in four essays, describes the daring flanking maneuvers of Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville, and presents the last word on Lee's infamous "lost order," among other topics. Other highlights include David Herbert Donald on Lincoln's early command, Gary W. Gallagher on Lee's record before his ascension as a Southern icon, John Bowers on Chickamauga, and much more. This hard back book is in very good condition, with a dust jacket also in very good condition.

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