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Stackpole Classics eBook Series

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  • Reflections on Lee

    by Charles P. Roland ...
    Series series Stackpole Classics
    No other general in American history has attracted the attention and adoration accorded to Robert Edward Lee, the peerless chieftain of the Confederacy. Indeed, in all of history, only Napoleon can vie with Lee for the hold he maintains on the imagination of students and admirers around the globe. Succeeding generations have invented and reinvented Lee, trying to make him a man for their own times ... Read more

    11,45 €

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  • The American Civil War

    by John Keegan ...
    The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but the reality of it confuses and divides historians even today.In this magisterial history of the first modern war, the distinguished military historian John Keegan unpicks the geography, leadership and ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • Lee

    A Biography

    by Clifford Dowdey ...
    General Robert E. Lee is well known as a major figure in the Civil War. However, by removing Lee from the delimiting frame of the Civil War and placing him in the context of the Republic's total history, Dowdey shows the "eternal relevance" of this tragic figure to the American heritage. With access to hundreds of personal letters, Dowdey brings fresh insights into Lee's background and personal ... Read more

    12,60 €

  • U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition

    by Bruce Catton ...
    A concise biography of the legendary Union general and controversial US president from "one of America's foremost Civil War authorities" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling historian Bruce Catton explores the life and legacy of one of the nation's most misunderstood heroes: Ulysses S. Grant. In this classic work, Grant emerges as a complicated figure whose ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America Goes to War

    The Civil War and Its Meaning in American Culture

    by Bruce Catton ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian "ranges informally but authoritatively" across Civil War-related topics in a thought-provoking essay collection ( The New York Times).Based on a lecture series delivered at Wesleyan University, these essays come from Bruce Catton, a New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning author acclaimed as "one of America's foremost Civil War authorities" ( ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrible Swift Sword

    by Bruce Catton ...
    Series series Centennial History of the Civil War
    The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war—an epic struggle for freedom.In Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton tells the story of the Civil War as never before—of two turning points which changed the scope and meaning of the war. First, he describes how the war slowly but steadily ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • If the South Had Won the Civil War

    by MacKinlay Kantor ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author reveals how the South could have won the Civil War in this alternative history novel.Two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would have happened: to the Union, to Abraham Lincoln, to the people of the North and South, to the world if the Confederacy achieved victory?If the South Had Won ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War

    by H. W. Crocker III ...
    The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today’s Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War. ... Read more

    17,18 €

  • Never Call Retreat

    by Bruce Catton ...
    Series series Centennial History of the Civil War
    "A magnificent stylist . . . a first-rate historian. Familiarity with subject matter resulting from many years of study and narrative talents exceeding those of any other Civil War historian enable him to move along swiftly and smoothly and produce a story that is informative, dramatic, and absorbingly interesting." —Dr. Bell I. Wiley, after reading the manuscript of Never Call RetreatThe final ... Read more

    10,27 €

  • The Myth of the Lost Cause

    Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won

    by Edward H. Bonekemper III ...
    History isn't always written by the winners...Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenth-century Civil War. As Lincoln knew, the meaning of America itself depends on how we understand that fratricidal struggle.As soon as the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms at Appomattox, a group of Confederate officers took up ... Read more

    17,18 €

  • The Long Road to Antietam

    How the Civil War Became a Revolution

    by Richard Slotkin ...
    A masterful account of the Civil War's turning point in the tradition of James McPherson's Crossroads of Freedom.In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy—one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the Emancipation Proclamation: an ... Read more

    12,50 €

  • The American Civil War: 1861-1865

    by History Nerds ...
    Series series Great Wars of the World
    Discover the dramatic story of the American Civil War, one of the most defining conflicts in the history of the United States. This concise and engaging history book explores the causes, major battles, and lasting consequences of the war that reshaped a nation and transformed the course of American society.Beginning with the secession crisis of 1860–1861, the book traces the growing tensions ... Read more

    2,90 € or Free with Kobo Plus