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Discusses the causes, major events, and aftermath of the Civil War.
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9780822501404 | Lerner Pub Group, October 1, 2004, cover price $27.93 | About this edition: Discusses the causes, major events, and aftermath of the Civil War.

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Product Description: By the Autumn of 1863 the tide of war appeared to be running heavily against the Confederacy. Lee's attack into Maryland had been halted at Gettysburg and he had fallen back into Virginia to lick his wounds; in the Mississippi Valley Vicksburg, the last Confederate hold on the river, had fallen to the tenacious Grant, and in the mountains around Chattanooga in eastern Tennessee General Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland was pausing after driving out the Confederate Army of the Tennessee without a shot being fired...read more
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9780275984403 | Praeger Pub Text, August 30, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: By the Autumn of 1863 the tide of war appeared to be running heavily against the Confederacy.

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9781855322639 | Osprey Pub Co, September 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Osprey's examination of the battle at Chickamagua, one of the decisive campaigns of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

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Product Description: The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam. Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. Detailing the plans and forces involved, James Arnold demonstrates how instead the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and other cities resulted in a catastrophic defeat for the North; and how, paradoxically, the American people and their leaders came to perceive the war for Vietnam was lost...read more
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9780275984526 | Praeger Pub Text, August 30, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam.

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9780850459609 | Osprey Pub Co, June 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam.

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Product Description: The first major battle in the Western theater of the American Civil War, Shiloh came as a horrifying shock to both the American public and those in arms. For the first time they had some idea of the terrible price that would be paid for the preservation of the Union...read more
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9780275984441 | Praeger Pub Text, August 30, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The first major battle in the Western theater of the American Civil War, Shiloh came as a horrifying shock to both the American public and those in arms.

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9781841761046 | Osprey Pub Co, July 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The first major battle in the Western theatre of the American Civil War, Shiloh came as a horrifying shock to both the American public and those in arms.
9781855326064 | Osprey Pub Co, January 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The first major battle in the Western theatre of the American Civil War (1861-1865), Shiloh came as a horrifying shock to both the American public and those in arms.

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Product Description: The 'Battle of the Bulge' was the last major German offensive in the West. Three armies attacked through the Ardennes, the weakest point in the American lines. Hitler gambled everything in the hope that the residual strength of the German army would not only force a breakthrough, but would also split the Allied coalition in two...read more
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9780275982614 | Praeger Pub Text, February 1, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The 'Battle of the Bulge' was the last major German offensive in the West.

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Examines the careers, personalities and fortunes of the key US Army and Air Force commanders of World War II.
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9781841764757 | Osprey Pub Co, November 1, 2002, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Examines the careers, personalities and fortunes of the key US Army and Air Force commanders of World War II.

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Product Description: Changing tactics following the German defeat in Normandy, Hitler turned his attention to Patton's advance through the Lorraine. There, the battle-hardened Wehrmacht held off better-equipped US troops for long enough to establish a thin line of defensive positions, and this line became the focus for a series of bitter US and German offensives throughout 1944 and 1945...read more
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9781841766171 | Osprey Pub Co, October 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Changing tactics following the German defeat in Normandy, Hitler turned his attention to Patton's advance through the Lorraine.

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Discusses the last year of the Civil War, including Linclon's reelection, and the final battles west of Richmond which ended the Confederate Army's hopes of victory and the surrender at Appomattox.
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9780822523178 | Lerner Pub Group, March 1, 2002, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: Discusses the last year of the Civil War, including Linclon's reelection, and the final battles west of Richmond which ended the Confederate Army's hopes of victory and the surrender at Appomattox.

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Discusses the political, economic, and social reasons that led to the Civil War, including the struggle over slavery and individual states' rights.
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9780822523123 | Lerner Pub Group, March 1, 2002, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: Discusses the political, economic, and social reasons that led to the Civil War, including the struggle over slavery and individual states' rights.

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Discusses the Battles of Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, and Chattanooga, all of which had a major impact on the outcome of the Civil War.
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9780822523161 | Lerner Pub Group, March 1, 2002, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: Discusses the Battles of Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, and Chattanooga, all of which had a major impact on the outcome of the Civil War.

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Describes the early battles fought in the West during the Civil War, including the Battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Stones River.
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9780822523147 | Lerner Pub Group, March 1, 2002, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: Describes the early battles fought in the West during the Civil War, including the Battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Stones River.

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9780822523154 | Lerner Pub Group, December 1, 2001, cover price $25.26

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Examines the early battles of the Civil War, including the First Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Antietam, and discusses the affects of the war on both Confederate and Union soldiers. (view table of contents)
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9780822523130 | Lerner Pub Group, December 1, 2001, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: Examines the early battles of the Civil War, including the First Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Antietam, and discusses the affects of the war on both Confederate and Union soldiers.

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9781841762548 | Osprey Pub Co, March 1, 2001, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West, a treacherous gamble that sealed the Fuhrer's fate. This work describes the planning of the attack and the course of events, including the defence of Bastogne and the heroic delaying actions fought be GIs.
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9781841760278 | Osprey Pub Co, January 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West, a treacherous gamble that sealed the Fuhrer's fate.

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Product Description: Vicksburg is the key. . . . Let us get Vicksburg, and all that country is ours.--President Abraham Lincoln, 1862In a brilliantly constructed and powerfully rendered new account, James R. Arnold offers a penetrating analysis of Grant's strategies and actions leading to the Union victory at Vicksburg...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780471157274 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, November 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A new look at the Civil War demonstrates that besides Gettysburg, there was another great victory in the East that proved to be a deciding factor in the South's defeat and shows how General Grant created a brilliant military campaign to accomplish it.

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9780471350637 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 6, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Vicksburg is the key.

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Product Description: This text presents a combination of assessments, by international Napoleonic experts, of Bonaparte's military career, character, leadership and performance. The result of the analysis is a volume which informs the reader, allowing them to make their own decision on the Emperor. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781854093424 | Arms & Armour, March 1, 1997, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This text presents a combination of assessments, by international Napoleonic experts, of Bonaparte's military career, character, leadership and performance.

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9780811709774 | Stackpole Books, January 1, 1997, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: U.S. Grant gained distinction as one of our country greatest military leaders. As Commander of Union Forces in the West, he developed the Army of the Tennessee into an operation that many considered invincible. In the Virginia theater, he expertly adapted his troops and conducted a series of raw, murderous offensives which brought about the eventual surrender of Lee...read more
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9781854091772 | Arms & Armour, August 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Follow the development of Ulysses S.

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9781854093745 | Arms & Armour, August 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: U.

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9780275946944 | Praeger Pub Text, July 30, 1995, cover price $103.95

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A fascinating look at how four presidents balanced political pressures and military realities as they made wartime decisions focuses on the administrations of George Washington, James Polk, Lyndon Johnson, and Confederate president Jefferson Davis. 10,000 first printing.
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9780517588635 | Orion Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A fascinating look at how four presidents balanced political pressures and military realities as they made wartime decisions focuses on the administrations of George Washington, James Polk, Lyndon Johnson, and Confederate president Jefferson Davis.

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Discusses how State Department officials obtained U.S. backing for France's efforts to reclaim its colonies in Indochina
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9780688096403 | William Morrow & Co, November 1, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Discusses how State Department officials obtained U.

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Product Description: The 'Battle of the Bulge' was the last major German offensive in the West. Three armies attacked through the Ardennes, the weakest point in the American lines - and almost broke through. This title describes the planning of the attack and the course of events, including the defence of Bastogne and the heroic delaying actions fought by GIs supposed to be in a 'quiet' sector of the front...read more
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9780850459593 | Osprey Pub Co, October 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The 'Battle of the Bulge' was the last major German offensive in the West.

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Provides background information on what led to the Austrian campaign, discusses tactics and strategies used during battle, and examines the consequences of the war
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9781557781376 | 1 edition (Paragon House, August 1, 1990), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Provides background information on what led to the Austrian campaign, discusses tactics and strategies used during battle, and examines the consequences of the war

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Product Description: The Second World War, unlike the First, fostered the projection of 'characters'. Thanks to the media, many of the Allied commanders became household names, known as much for their successes and defeats on the battlefield as for their personalities...read more
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9780850454208 | Reprint edition (Osprey Pub Co, April 1, 1990), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Second World War, unlike the First, fostered the projection of 'characters'.

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