Product Description: The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War. Known as the Gibraltar of the West, Vicksburg was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. In a masterly campaign, the Union General Ulysses S Grant used riverboats and steamers to land his army south of the city, where he defeated the armies of Generals Joe Johnston and John C...read more

Product Description: At Bull Run, two inexperienced, ill-trained and poorly led armies clashed in the opening engagement of the American Civil War. Culminating in a stalwart defensive fight by Stonewall Jackson's Virginia Brigade, this is the story of the Confederacy's first victory...read more

Product Description: Twelve slim volumes (each is 96 pages) originally published by Osprey Publishing Ltd. (UK) between 1991 and 2004 comprise this subset of the Praeger Military History Series. Well worth reprinting and re-packaging, each volume is a thorough and detailed history of a particular battle: Antietam, Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, Fair Oaks, First Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Hampton Roads, Second Manassas, Lee's defense of Richmond, Shiloh, and Vicksburg...read more

Product Description: Culminating in a stalwart defensive fight by Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson's Virginia Brigade, this book is the story of the Confederacy's first victory. The lead-up to the battle, the affair at Blackburn's Ford and the fight for Henry Hill are all covered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A climbers' guru par excellence of the interwar years, Winthrop Young was also an educationalist who helped Kurt Hahn found the "Outward Bound" movement, and was closely involved with German attempts to oust Hitler. He was a patriot and a dedicated European, a homosexual and a devoted family man, and lived his life among politicians and leaders like Theodore Roosevelt, Churchill, Baden-Powell and the Kaiser...read more

Product Description: In his study of 50 small mechanical and electrical engineering firms in the South Wessex region between 1979 and 1987, Alan Hankinson uncovers endemic survival problems of investment, pricing, output and marketing. Investment strategies were minimal, external finance was avoided and government aid had been largely ignored...read more