English Civil War

> The New York Times hailed this trilogy as “one of the greatest historical accomplishments of our time”. With stunning detail and insights, America’s foremost Civil War historian recreates the war from its opening months to its final, bloody end. Each volume delivers a complete listening experience. The Coming Fury (Volume 1) covers the split Democratic Convention in the spring of 1860 to the first battle of Bull Run.

Jeff Shaara, America's premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the 10 Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg/Appomattox. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict.

Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial.

21st Century America has one historical trend: it’s more and more divided each year. There are dozens of factors that warn if a country is headed toward civil war. After the 2020 Pandemic almost all those alarms are sounding. The state of the union is weak at best. Most Americans are barely surviving economically. Years of high inflation forced millions to live off credit cards and so debts are increasing. Wages have trailed behind growth for decades. As people get more desperate, millions turn to crime. Mass shootings, violent crime, armed robberies all increased after the pandemic. More...

Step back in time and experience the Civil War through the stories of the people who lived through it. Witness the first shots on Fort Sumter. Hear blood-curdling rebel yells. Experience a brutal battle at sea. True Stories of the Civil War doesn’t just tell you the tales of war. It drops you into the thick of combat.

The star-crossed Union officer and Confederate spy find that it is not easy to escape their pasts. On the heels of the battle at Hoover's Gap, James Lockett receives a cryptic message regarding Anna Tucker's whereabouts and impending peril. Will he trust a man who once vowed to kill him? Stymied by General Bragg and the limited passes south through the hills, General Rosecrans and the Union army finally move on Hoover's Gap. Riding with Wilder's new mounted infantry brigade and armed with the experimental repeating Spencer rifle, Lockett and company find surprising success in the seven mile...

Imagine the Civil War underway today. Up-to-the-minute dispatches in daily newspapers. Real time dialog on social media. Cable television broadcasting live pictures from the fighting. It’s easy to become accustomed to getting our daily news and information quickly – with the tap on an app! Not so during the war years in the 19th century.Newspapers were the mass media of the time. They played a dominant, and some might say, monopolistic, role in forming public opinion. Editors chose sides and their opinions were liberally extolled on their pages, whether it was in how a story was ...

From award-winning author, Diane Wylie, comes a new Civil War romance... After the deaths of their parents, Christine and Francine Lawson are left homeless and destitute. Young single ladies with no salable skills have few options in 1863 Philadelphia. They had been raised as respectable ladies, and neither sister is willing to become a lady of the night. As luck would have it, the Union Army is recruiting in town. Food, clothing, and medical care would be free, and you get paid. All you needed to do was to be an able-bodied man... Ryan Bishop and Eli Moore signed up with the Twenty-Eighth ...

A Dark Horizon is the story of two young boys growing up with one living on a nearby farm and the other as a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. The two become good friends despite the difficult circumstances of plantation life prior to the Civil War. A series of events occur later that bring these two friends together but on a battlefield of the American Civil War. It's the story of two friends and how life in the Antebellum South and the war created different life paths for them.

The final work in this series begins in December of 1862. Four months before, the Union Army tasted long-awaited victory at the bloody battle of Antietam. Grant continued on towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. The grim battles that lay ahead would be costly: the Vicksburg campaign, Chattanooga, the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea, the siege of Petersburg. There would be two and a half more years of war before Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.

Returning to the turbulent days of a nation divided, best-selling author and acclaimed historian James Robertson explores 70 fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond. Relentless politicians, intrepid fighters, cunning innovators - the times called for bold moves, and this resilient generation would not disappoint.

What were Southerners reading on the Home Front during the Civil War? As a break from the news of the day, they read the wide variety editors included in newspapers and magazines—songs, speeches, poems, appeals, announcements, jokes, essays, diary entries, travelogues and even novelettes. You will find samples of all of these in this text—with subjects ranging from the courageous soldiers and their enduring faith to more fun topics such as young love, a farmer’s corn crop and many more. Anyone from a private individual who wrote a poem to honor a loved one to acclaimed authors of ...

Iron Man and Captain America are two core members of the Avengers, the world's greatest superhero team. But when a tragic battle blows a hole in the city of Stamford, killing hundreds of people, the US government demands that all superheroes unmask and register their powers. To Tony Stark - Iron Man - it's a regrettable but necessary step. To Captain America, it's an unbearable assault on civil liberties.

Storm clouds are approaching Culpeper County, Virginia, in early January 1861. The troublesome Fogarty brothers have been raising havoc across the countryside, and when the local lawman, Will Brannon, returns from another futile attempt to track them down, he finds the townspeople abuzz. South Carolina has seceded from the Union, and rumor has it more states will follow, perhaps even Virginia.

How 305 Civil War Words and Terms Will Help You Learn About The Civil War The soldiers of the Civil War had their own way of saying things. The words, slang, and phrases of the Billy Yanks (Union soldiers), Johnny Rebs (Confederate soldiers), and the civilians of the 19th century are unique and strange to our modern-day ears. The language of the people of Civil War times was rich and colorful, it reflected their lives and times. Do you want to learn about the Civil War? Would you like to know how the soldiers and citizens of Civil War times spoke? What slang and phrases were used in the ...

William C. Davis, one of America’s best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and incipient nation.

What you have been told about the Civil War is not the complete story. I know there are hundreds of books on the Civil War, so every viewpoint imaginable has been provided to you. Well, there is still more to be told and it isn’t pretty. The war should not have been fought and the instigators should not have been honored as they have been through the years. We follow the money in this saga to find out more about what really happened and why.

Terrible Swift Sword (Vol. 2): The dismissal of George McClellan and the rise of Ulysses S. Grant.

Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the 20th century. With new material gleaned from Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible audiobook (Spain's number-one best seller for 12 weeks) provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war - its causes, course, and consequences.

They’ve just achieved statehood. Has the wilderness of this new wife’s childhood been completely tamed, or are there deadly threats on the horizon? Florida, 1844. Mary Adeline Walker brims with optimism. After three years of marriage, she’s still head-over-heels in love with her refined gentleman of a husband and delights in their blended family of five children. But it’s hard to remain at peace as outlaw gangs constantly crop up and news of war with Mexico brings a spark to her spouse’s eyes. Relieved as the conflict sweeps by without harming her household, Mary steadfastly keeps...