Product Description: This compelling collection of eyewitness accounts--an engrossing chronological narrative extracted from memoirs and soldiers' letters--depicts the bloody battles of Grant's desperate, all-out assault on Lee's armies from May through July, 1864...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: General William Tecumseh Sherman is known as the man who said "War is hell" and who waged it so fiercely that it left a permanent scar on the Southern psyche. But Civil War historian Richard Wheeler offers a new view of Sherman, as a man of compassion as well as conviction, a military leader who was ahead of his time in understanding that the destruction of supplies and property--the means to wage war--was as important as meeting and destroying enemy armies...read more

Product Description: This excellent volume is yet another compendium of primary source material coupled with the excellent commentary and summaries by the author. It is enlightening, accurate, lively, and just a plain good read. It is also an excellent research resource for further study of the period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Compiling eyewitness accounts of the American Civil War, a new history of that conflict presents an intimate chronicle of war, from the opening shots at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox (view table of contents)

Describes United States Marine action in the Pacific during World War II, including Wake Island, the Solomons, Bougainville, the Marshalls, Guam and Okinawa

A biography of the great Civil War general which includes many accounts by people who knew him.