Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (McCurry Stephanie)(Paperback)

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (McCurry Stephanie)(Paperback)

Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti Award 'McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the Confederacy had to fight a two-front war. Not only

Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War (McCurry Stephanie)(Paperback)

Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award 'A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.'--David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass 'Readers expecting hoop-skirted ladies soothing fevered soldiers' brows will not find them here...Explodes the fiction that men fight

Poems of the American South(Pevná vazba)

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically

Confederate Soldier of the American Civil War (Hambucken Denis)(Paperback)

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed no signs of ending. Hundreds of thousands of men across the divided nation enlisted in state volunteer regiments that poured into the sprawling military

Resistance (Runberg Sylvain)(Paperback)

The Confederation is on the brink of civil war After fleeing Confederate space, Caleb and Mezoke are hiding among a community of exiles disgusted by the corruption and violence infecting the galactic government. Caleb is recovering slowly, just as Angus, the living ship, is doing on a different

Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds Versus Whites (Laruelle Marlene)(Paperback)

In examining the re-emergence of Russia's pro-Tsarist White Movement, Rediscovering Russia's White Movement gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today.The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917

Union Sharpshooter Vs Confederate Sharpshooter: American Civil War 1861-65 (Yee Gary)(Paperback)

This fully illustrated study assesses the fighting techniques, armament, and combat record of the Union and Confederate sharpshooters who clashed in battles and sieges throughout the American Civil War. During the American Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy both fielded units of

Exploding Bullets in the American Civil War (Stamm Lisa M.)(Paperback)

Exploding Bullets in the American Civil War explores the history, use and manufacturing of this devastating round in one of the United States most brutal conflicts. Also included is a discussion of mistaken identity bullets as well as northern and southern perspectives and personal accounts from

Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar's Borderlands (Brenner David)(Paperback)

Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising

American Civil War (Keegan John)(Paperback / softback)

The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. In this magisterial history of the first modern war, the distinguished military historian John Keegan unpicks the geography, leadership and strategic logic of the war and takes us to the heart of the

Decisive Battles of the English Civil War (Wanklyn Malcolm)(Paperback / softback)

In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles of the English Civil War, Malcolm Wanklyn reassesses what actually happened on the battlefield and as a result sheds new light on the causes of the eventual defeat of Charles I. Taking each major battle in turn - Edgehill,

The Young Lions: Confederate Cadets at War (Conrad James Lee)(Paperback)

Focusing on the South's four major military colleges--the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the South Carolina Military Academy (later The Citadel), the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of Alabama--The Young Lions is the story of young Confederate military cadets at war. From the

Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power, and Threefolding (Perlas Nicanor)(Paperback)

Civil Society has become a major power in the world. The stunning defeat of the controversial and secretive Multilateral Agreement on Investments, the massive worldwide WTO protests and the yearly meetings of the World Social Forum are testimony to its coming of age. From these significant

Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (Handley-Cousins Sarah)(Paperback)

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways, many of them understudied by historians. In Bodies in Blue, Sarah Handley-Cousins expands and complicates our understanding of wartime disability by examining a

False Black Power? (Riley Jason L.)(Paperback)

Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why increased black political power has not paid

The Civil War (Caesar Julius)(Paperback)

The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing

Heavy Reckoning - War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond (Mayhew Emily)(Paperback / softback)

Civil War (Lucan)(Paperback)

Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, stands beside the poems of Virgil and Ovid in the first rank of Latin epic. This newly annotated, free verse translation conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the

War Lord (Cornwell Bernard)(Paperback)

IN THE FINAL RECKONING, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE CAREFULLY...The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical

Life And Times Of Michael K (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving

Battle Tactics of the Civil War (Griffith Paddy)(Paperback)

In Battle Tactics of the Civil War, Paddy Griffith argues that, far from being the first 'modern' war, it was the last 'Napoleonic' war, and that none of the innovations of industrialized warfare had any significant effect on the

Spanish Civil War - Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (Preston Paul)(Paperback / softback)

UPDATED EDITIONA rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General

Summer of Reckoning (Brunet Marion)(Paperback)

The story takes place in the suffocating atmosphere of a social housing estate in the south of France. Sixteen-year-old C line and her sister Jo, fifteen, dream of escaping to somewhere far from their daily routine, far from their surly, alcoholic father and uncaring mother, both struggling to make

Shadows Over the Spanish Sun (Montague Caroline)(Paperback / softback)

A sweeping tale of love, betrayal and war, set in the heat and turmoil of the Spanish Civil War. Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Tracy Rees and Dinah