The classic novel of speculative history, showing how the South could have won the Civil War, is accompanied by the author's essay on his work.
Those initial thoughts drew strength from Mary Bilder, Jim Cronin, Dennis Dickerson, Kevin Kenny, Jim O'Toole, Alan Rogers, David Shi, Joel Wolfe, and Howard Bloom, who all urged me to throw ideas at the wall and see what stuck.
A military historian and author of How Wars Are Won looks at the costly errors that cost the South victory during the Civil War and outlines the tactical and strategic approaches the Confederacy should have used that could have changed the ...
2. New York Observer, November 17, 1864, as quoted in Emerson David Fite, Social and Industrial Conditions in the North During the Civil War (New York: Peter Smith, 1930), 283. 3. W. T. Crane, “Thanksgiving Festivities at Fort Pulaski, ...
The name of the weapon is the AK-47.... Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club A Main Selection of the Military Book Club
The characters in the book-within-a-book are all taken from history, and the military tactics and stragegies are based on those of the actual war. The novel is followed by a lively and informative factual essay of the Civil War."--
Why the Confederacy Lost provides a parallel volume, written by today's leading authorities. Provocatively argued and engagingly written, this work reminds us that the hard-won triumph of the North was far from inevitable.
From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War.
The distinguished professors of history represented in this volume examine the following crucial factors in the South’s defeat: ECONOMIC—RICHARD N. CURRENT of the University of Wisconsin attributes the victory of the North to ...
Turning conventional wisdom on its head, John Majewski's analysis finds that secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led modernization.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2011. Downs, Jim. Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York, 2012. Drabelle, Dennis. The Great American Railroad War. New York, 2012.