Product Description: The world's leading scholar of Union naval blockades provides a comprehensive operational history of the force that patrolled the southern Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida. He chronicles daring amphibious assaults, clashes between ironclad vessels, harassment of Confederate blockade runners, submarine warfare in the form of the CSS Hunley, and power struggles between admirals and politicians...read more

Product Description: Revered by some, notorious to others, Nathan Bedford Forrest has long been considered one of the greatest soldiers of the American Civil War. Historian Robert Browning introduces readers to the facts and myths thatsurround this controversial man...read more

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Product Description: Goethe's early plays bear witness to his urgent desire to enliven German theater--an ambition that followed him to the National Theater in Weimar, where he was named director in the early 1790s. This volume contains eight of these plays, written between 1771 and 1787...read more

Product Description: This anthology of German verse in English translation covers a period that includes perhaps two-thirds of the superlative poets of the German language. Here are 147 poems representing 27 poets from Matthias Claudius to Friedrich Nietzsche...read more