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The Beleaguered City: Richmond, 1861-1865 by: Bill, Alfred Hoyt

The Beleaguered City: Richmond, 1861-1865
by: Bill, Alfred Hoyt

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages plus index. Tan cloth boards that show minor fading to top, spine and light discoloration to back cover. Otherwise very good. No dust jacket. Generous selection of black and white illustrations. This copy also complete with both the fold-out maps that are often missing: (1) City of Richmond in 1861; and (2) Richmond-Petersburg Theatre of Operations. These ten chapters reconstitute, across an eighty-year gap, the everyday life of a capital city close behind the fighting fronts of a prolonged war. From records that originated close to the facts or in the midst of them--newspapers, advertisements, diaries, letters, stenographic reports of the time--Mr. Bill discloses how people lived on the home front of the Confederacy. He tells in abundant detail what the people did to amuse themselves, what rumors alternately exalted and depressed them, about what and whom they gossiped, what they found procurable in the black market and what it cost them.

Record # 383904

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The Bloody Massacre: Perpetrated in King-Street, Boston, on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regimentby: n/a

The Bloody Massacre: Perpetrated in King-Street, Boston, on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment
by: n/a

Hardcover. Barre, Ma, Imprint Society, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration by Paul Revere. Gray cloth cover boards with title paste on. Small bump on spine. Together with a print of the event taken from the plate engraved by Paul Revere, the report from the Boston Gazette, and a note by Dr. Richard Hale. "Nineteen hundred & fifty copies of this presentation book have been printed for the members of Imprint Society. The engraving of the Boston Massacre was pulled by hand from Paul Revere's original copperplate by Anderson-Lamb of Brooklyn. This is copy number 1822."

Record # 99235

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The Boston Massacreby: Hiller B. Zobel

The Boston Massacre
by: Hiller B. Zobel

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 372 pages. The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an event on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. The British soldiers were put on trial, found guilty of manslaughter and had their thumbs branded with an 'M' for murder as punishment. This book covers the action and the subsequent trial. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396912

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The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War (SIGNED COPY)by: Puleo, Stephen

The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War (SIGNED COPY)
by: Puleo, Stephen

Hardcover. Westholme Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 374 pages, b&w illustrations. Bright, clean. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. "Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the United States Senate Chamber in Washington, D.C., and began beating renowned anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner with a cane until it splintered and the helpless Massachusetts senator lay unconscious and covered in blood. One of the most shocking and provocative events in American history, the caning convinced each side that the gulf between them was unbridgeable and that they could no longer discuss their vast differences of opinion regarding slavery on any reasonable level."

Record # 397894

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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783by: Joseph J. Ellis

The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
by: Joseph J. Ellis

Hardcover. NY, Liveright, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 375 pages. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America's revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War. For more than two centuries, historians have debated the history of the American Revolution, disputing its roots, its provenance, and above all, its meaning. These questions have intrigued Ellis-one of our most celebrated scholars of American history-throughout his entire career. With this much-anticipated volume, he at last brings the story of the revolution to vivid life, with "surprising relevance" (Susan Dunn) for our modern era. Clean copy.

Record # 381704

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The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume 2. Fredericksburg to Meridianby: Foote, Shelby

The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume 2. Fredericksburg to Meridian
by: Foote, Shelby

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 focuses on the pivotal year of 1863, as Shelby Foote's masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant's Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War. Endpaper maps. First published in 1963, this appears to be a 70s reprint ($40 price on dust jacket). Clean copy.

Record # 396587

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The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume 3. Red River to Appomattox by: Foote, Shelby

The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume 3. Red River to Appomattox
by: Foote, Shelby

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Civil War: A Narrative. In the third -- and last -- volume of this vivid history, Foote brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife which altered American life forever. Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the field of battle, which finally decided the fate of this nation. "Red River to Appomattox" opens with the beginning of the two final, major confrontations of the war: Grant against Lee in Virginia, and Sherman pressing Johnston in North Georgia. While the Virginia-Georgia fighting is in progress, Kearsarge sinks the Alabama and Forrest gains new laurels at Brice's Crossroads.With Grant and Lee deadlocked at Petersburg, Sherman takes Atlanta -- assuring Lincoln's reelection, together with the certainty that the war will be fought (not negotiated) to a finish. These events are followed by Hood's bold northward strike through middle Tennessee while Sherman sets out on his march to the sea, to be opposed at its end by the ghost of the Army of Tennessee. Endpaper maps. First published in 1974, this appears to be a reprint (no price on dust jacket). Newspaper obituary of Foote laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 396588

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The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume I. Fort. Sumter to Perryvilleby: Foote, Shelby

The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume I. Fort. Sumter to Perryville
by: Foote, Shelby

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac. The word "narrative" is the key to this extraordinary book's incandescence and its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research. This first volume in Shelby Foote's comprehensive history is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the bloodiest wars in America's history. Endpaper maps. First published in 1958, this appears to be a 70s reprint ($40 price on dust jacket). Clean copy.

Record # 396586

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The Confederate Carpetbaggersby: Sutherland, Daniel E

The Confederate Carpetbaggers
by: Sutherland, Daniel E

Hardcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Following the American Civil War, many former Confederates fled their southern homeland. Some left the United States, some moved to the western territories. Still others moved north to northeastern and midwestern towns and cities, believing that northern economic and educational opportunities offered the quickest means of rebuilding shattered fortunes and lives. Sutherland provides a detailed and illuminating account of the contributions these displaced southerners made to the financial, literary, artistic, and political life of the nation. Very nice copy.

Record # 383893

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The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American Warby: Guardino, Peter

The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
by: Guardino, Peter

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 502 pages, b&w illustrations. "Superb...A remarkable achievement, by far the best general account of the war now available. It is critical, insightful, and rooted in a wealth of archival sources; it brings far more of the Mexican experience than any other work...and it clearly demonstrates the social and cultural dynamics that shaped Mexican and American politics and military force." -Journal of American History It has long been held that the United States emerged victorious from the Mexican-American War because its democratic system was more stable and its citizens more loyal. But this award-winning history shows that Americans dramatically underestimated the strength of Mexican patriotism and failed to see how bitterly Mexicans resented their claims to national and racial superiority. Their fierce resistance surprised US leaders, who had expected a quick victory with few casualties. By focusing on how ordinary soldiers and civilians in both countries understood and experienced the conflict, The Dead March offers a clearer picture of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America. Clean copy.

Record # 384174

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The History of the Civil War in America Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rebellion....(Two Volumes)by: John S. C. Abbott

The History of the Civil War in America Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rebellion....(Two Volumes)
by: John S. C. Abbott

Hardcover. Springfield MA, Gurdon Bill, 1st, 1863/1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 398435

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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet Itby: Hinton Rowan Helper

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
by: Hinton Rowan Helper

Hardcover. NY, Burdick Brothers, reprint, 1857, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Ninth thousand. The Impending Crisis is often considered the only popular antislavery work by a southern author prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Helper (1829-1909)'s argument that "slavery was economically unsound" caused this work to be "officially banned in the South"; in the North, it "vied in popularity and influence with Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Howes). The book stoked fears among southern slaveholders that the "North would promote a class conflict among southern whites," and helped drive many towards secessionism. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Otherwise a clean copy in exceptionally nice condition.

Record # 397170

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The Legacy of the Civil War: Meditations on the Centennialby: Robert Penn Warren

The Legacy of the Civil War: Meditations on the Centennial
by: Robert Penn Warren

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Explores the lasting political, social, and economic influences of the Civil War upon the history of America. Stated first printing. Front fly leaf with a red H stamp, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 387611

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The Long Road To Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolutionby: Richard Slotkin

The Long Road To Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
by: Richard Slotkin

Hardcover. NY, Liveright, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 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 unprecedented use of federal power that would revolutionize Southern society. In The Long Road to Antietam, Richard Slotkin, a renowned cultural historian, reexamines the challenges that Lincoln encountered during that anguished summer 150 years ago. In an original and incisive study of character, Slotkin re-creates the showdown between Lincoln and General George McClellan, the "Young Napoleon" whose opposition to Lincoln included obsessive fantasies of dictatorship and a military coup. He brings to three-dimensional life their ruinous conflict, demonstrating how their political struggle provided Confederate General Robert E. Lee with his best opportunity to win the war, in the grand offensive that ended in September of 1862 at the bloody Battle of Antietam. 10 illustrations; 8 maps.

Record # 381229

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The Loyalists of New Jersey: Their Memorials, Petitions, Claims, etc. From English Recordsby: E. Alfred Jones

The Loyalists of New Jersey: Their Memorials, Petitions, Claims, etc. From English Records
by: E. Alfred Jones

Hardcover. Newark, New Jersey Historical Society, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 346 pages, portrait frontispiece. Appears to be rebound from an earlier undated printing published by The New Jersey Historical Society, Volume X. Clean copy.

Record # 386891

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The Making of a Quagmire: An Uncomplimentary Account of Our Precarious Commitment in South Vietnamby: David Halberstam

The Making of a Quagmire: An Uncomplimentary Account of Our Precarious Commitment in South Vietnam
by: David Halberstam

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 323 pages. A contemporary account of early U.S. involvement in Vietnam -- and the problems manifesting themselves in the effort -- by legendary journalist and author David Halberstam. Halberstam covered Vietnam for the New York Times in the early 1960s and won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396376

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The Perry's Victory Centenary; Report of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission, State of New Yorkby: George D. Emerson

The Perry's Victory Centenary; Report of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission, State of New York
by: George D. Emerson

Hardcover. Albany NY, J. B. Lyon Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 309 pages of text. 73 pages of b&w illustrations throughout. Oversized, brown embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Bumped corners, some wear to edges. Slight foxing to pages. Diverse content, commemorates Oliver H. Perry's naval victory in the War of 1812. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386252

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The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence: - Two Volumes by:

The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence: - Two Volumes
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Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1859, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early reprint. Two volume set. Three quarter polished leather with marbled boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Color frontispiece present in volume one with tissue guard. 523 in-text illustrations, lithographic and letterpress title pages in both volumes. Originally issued in 30 installments from June 1, 1850 to Dec 1, 1852, Lossing's work was a great success and was reprinted several times before the end of the decade, in different formats and with additional illustrations and notes. Little to no foxing, exceptionally bright set.

Record # 351640

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The Red Monarch: Scenes from the Life of Stalinby: Yuri Krotkov

The Red Monarch: Scenes from the Life of Stalin
by: Yuri Krotkov

Hardcover. NY , Norton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine, 253 pages. This series of sketches captures Stalin with irony, humor and pathos. The author calls his fictionalized version of Stalin "artistic documentation" in the spirit of reality based on research, personal experience and conversations with others. Yuri Krotkov, a Soviet Georgian, as was Stalin, was a prominent dramatist and screenwriter in the Soviet Union before his defection. As a member of the Russian intelligentsia, he was in the confidence of top-ranking Soviet and party officials in Moscow. Review slip laid in. Foxing to top edge otherwise clean copy.

Record # 397949

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The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley: The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground, 1775-1783by: Adrian C. Leiby

The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley: The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground, 1775-1783
by: Adrian C. Leiby

Softcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages, b&w illustrations. Deals with activity during the American Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley which lies in north-eastern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York. The area, populated mainly by settlers of Dutch descent, lay between the British and the American lines, and suffered from marauders and plundering expeditions from both sides. Very light pencil marking to about 30 pages.

Record # 386885

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The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox by: Hamilton, Phillip

The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox
by: Hamilton, Phillip

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages. In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy's father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple joined the American cause after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and fled British-occupied Boston. Knox became a soldier in the Continental Army, where he served until the war's end as Washington's artillery commander. While Henry is well known to historians, his private life and marriage to Lucy remain largely unexplored. Phillip Hamilton tells the fascinating story of the Knoxes' relationship amid the upheavals of war. Like John and Abigail Adams, the Knoxes were often separated by the revolution and spent much of their time writing to one another. They penned nearly 200 letters during the conflict, more than half of which are reproduced and annotated for this volume.This correspondence--one of the few collections of letters between revolutionary-era spouses that spans the entire war--provides a remarkable window into the couple's marriage. Clean copy.

Record # 383971

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The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by: Michael F. Holt

The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War
by: Michael F. Holt

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 1248 pages, illustations. The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was involved at every level of American politics--local, state, and federal--in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the White House for eight of the twenty-two years that it existed. Now, in The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written--a monumental history covering in rich detail the American political landscape from the Age of Jackson to impending disunion. In Michael Holt's hands, the history of the Whig Party becomes a political history of the United States during the tumultuous Antebellum period. He offers a panoramic account of a time when a welter of parties (Whig, Democratic, Anti-Mason, Know Nothing, Free Soil, Republican) and many extraordinary political statesmen (including Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, William Seward, Daniel Webster, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay) struggled to control the national agenda as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events rocked the country, including the Nullification Controversy, the Panic of 1837, the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Holt captures all of this as he shows that, amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, repeatedly trying to find a compromise position. Indeed, the Whig Party emerges as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession and civil war.

Record # 381232

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The Thirty Years War: Europe

The Thirty Years War: Europe

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 997 pages, color and b&w illustrations. A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor's envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals-the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict. By war's end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country's greatest disaster. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 378563

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The Tin Box: Keepsakes of a Civil War General (SIGNED COPY)by: Robert W. P. Cutler

The Tin Box: Keepsakes of a Civil War General (SIGNED COPY)
by: Robert W. P. Cutler

Softcover. Kearney NE, Morris Publishing, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 273 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. The Tin Box captures the life of George Varney, Brevet Brigadier General and Colonel of the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment from Bangor during the Civil War. The book is based on a collection of letters, newspaper clippings, and military documents found in a metal box when Varney's only grandson died. Varney wrote to his mother from June 1861 to March 1863; from the first battle of Bull Run to Chancellorsville; from his capture at Gaines Mill to his head injury at Fredericksburg. From letters to General Varney from friends he made on the battlefield -- Generals Joshua Chamberlain, Thomas Hyde, Fitz John Porter, and others -- the book reveals the life-long impact on Varney of the war that consumed the nation. Newspaper clippings recount the glorious homecoming of the 2nd Maine, the Bangor reception of President Grant, and the first reunion of the veterans of the regiment, held nearly forty years after mustering out. From information meticulously recorded in a tattered notebook found in the box, the author, Varney's great grandson, traced the genealogy of the Varney family back to the 1630s. Among Varney's ancestors was his great uncle and military role model, General Isaac Hodsdon, who figured prominently in early Maine history as the commander of the militia in the Aroostook War of 1839. The book discusses in detail this little-known but important chapter in U. S. history. Clean copy.

Record # 379201

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The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil Warby: John J. Pullen

The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War
by: John J. Pullen

Softcover. Dayton OH, Morningside Bookshop, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 338 pages, b&w illustrations. Reprint of 1957 Edition. "Mr. Pullen...has gone to the letters, diaries and memoirs of the participants with the thoroughness and care of a good historian...He can also describe battle action with much distinction, his account of the 20th's fight at Gettysburg is as good a piece of battle writing as you are likely to find anywhere." - Bruce Catton. Clean copy.

Record # 397524

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The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South West Pacific 1944-45by: Charlton, Peter

The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South West Pacific 1944-45
by: Charlton, Peter

Hardcover. Melbourne AUS, Macmillan, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, b&w illustrations. The last year of the Pacific war cost more than a thousand Australian lives in campaigns that are today almost impossible to justify either militarily or politically. The soldiers doing the fighting and the dying thought they were participating in a 'politicians' war'. They were not. They were fighting a general's war.

Record # 378357

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The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Homeby: Mitchell, Reid

The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
by: Mitchell, Reid

Hardcover. New York, Oxford, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 201 pages. Beautiful copy in clear brodart cover. Like new.

Record # 450476

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The War Conspiracy; The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War by: Peter Dale Scott

The War Conspiracy; The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War
by: Peter Dale Scott

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. All about the motivation and planning for the Wars in Laos (1959-62), Vietnam (from 1954) and Cambodia. Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by "accidents" and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. Name on front fly leaf, light rubbing to dj, otherwise clean.

Record # 396255

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The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia 1812by: Cate, Curtis

The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia 1812
by: Cate, Curtis

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 487 pages, b&w illustrations. Napoleon's colorful but disastrous Russian campaign has been strangely neglected by American publishers. Bridging the gap between popular and scholarly history, historian Cate has written a thoroughly detailed and researched account that should also appeal to the lay reader. His writing is deliberately paced but dramatic and does far more justice to the extremely complex political and military situation of 1812 than Philippe de Segur's Napoleon's Russian Campaign (1965), the only other work available in the United States. Clean copy.

Record # 387530

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Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peaceby: Hodding Carter

Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace
by: Hodding Carter

Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 78 pages. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 12. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396907

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Theodore Winthrop (SIGNED COPY)by: Eliot, Jr., Ellsworth

Theodore Winthrop (SIGNED COPY)
by: Eliot, Jr., Ellsworth

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED ON FRONT ENDPAPER BY AUTHOR. Portrait of Winthrop opposite title page. Darkening to title on spine, with chip missing at very top. Moderate rubbing with small section of abrasion at bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611868

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This Gunner at His Piece: College Point, New York & the Civil War, with Biographies of the Men Who Served (SIGNED COPY)by: James E Haas

This Gunner at His Piece: College Point, New York & the Civil War, with Biographies of the Men Who Served (SIGNED COPY)
by: James E Haas

Softcover. Baltimore MD, Gateway Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 272 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. 226 men with ties to College Point, New York took part in the Civil War. They served in 82 different Army units, and in the Navy, both on land and on sea. They were infantry men, engineers and artillerists, and one was a musician in the Marine Band. The majority claimed Germany as their country of birth, and 24 died in the service of their adopted homeland. This Gunner at His Piece tells their stories, before, during and after the American Civil War. Clean copy.

Record # 382511

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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independenceby: Unger, Harlow Giles

Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
by: Unger, Harlow Giles

NY, Da Capo Press , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thomas Paine's words were like no others in history: they leaped off the page, inspiring readers to change their lives, their governments, their kings, and even their gods. In an age when spoken and written words were the only forms of communication, Paine's aroused men to action like no one else. The most widely read political writer of his generation, he proved to be more than a century ahead of his time, conceiving and demanding unheard-of social reforms that are now integral elements of modern republican societies. Among them were government subsidies for the poor, universal housing and education, pre- and post-natal care for women, and universal social security. An Englishman who emigrated to the American colonies, he formed close friendships with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and his ideas helped shape the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

Record # 381237

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Three Months in the Southern States - April-June, 1863 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Fremantle, Arthur J. L.

Three Months in the Southern States - April-June, 1863 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Fremantle, Arthur J. L.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover & spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. Fremantle paints a reasonable picture of the conditions and loyalties in both Southern and Northern territories. His ability to interview so many of the major Southern commanders, with little issue, indicates how lax security was in the Civil War period. His observations, of the life of Southern civilians during the war is also very enlightening.

Record # 372373

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Three Years in the Sixth Corps: A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by:

Three Years in the Sixth Corps: A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by:

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372349

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Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution by: Shy, John

Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution
by: Shy, John

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 463 pages with index. This study considers the subtle and frequently confused relationship of armed force and political control in the British Empire before the American Revolution. It also clarifies a number of points of controversy and uncertainty about the causes of the American Revolution. A crisp copy of the 1965 1st edition. Name on front fly leaf, price clipped otherwise clean.

Record # 387899

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TWO HUNDRED DAYS AS PRISONERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS. (SIGNED COPY)by: Koether Luella G. and T. Janet Surdan

TWO HUNDRED DAYS AS PRISONERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS. (SIGNED COPY)
by: Koether Luella G. and T. Janet Surdan

Softcover. Mason City, IA, Arrow Printing , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. 12mo. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on title page. Yellow wrappers wih red titles in English and Chinese. Age soil. The glue used by the printing company to attach the wrappers to the text was of poor quality; this has toned the wrappers spine to a darker yellow. Wear to top and bottom of spine.

Record # 220676

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U. S. Navy Fights, The.by: Roberts, W. Adolphe

U. S. Navy Fights, The.
by: Roberts, W. Adolphe

Hardcover. New York , The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges and corners and worn and bumped, faint smudges on cloth. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Some foxing on front and rear endpapers. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean, with many b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852695

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Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sailby: Roland, Alex

Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail
by: Roland, Alex

Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations. Small tears to the edges of several pages. Dust jacket w/rubbing, light edgewear. Else clean and tight.

Record # 455051

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Union Officer in the Reconstruction, Aby: De Forest, John William, James, H. Croushore, David M. Potter (Editors)

Union Officer in the Reconstruction, A
by: De Forest, John William, James, H. Croushore, David M. Potter (Editors)

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st thus Edition, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped, in very good condition with some tanning from age. Dj wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, black title on spine, boards very good, clean. Edges and pages clean, with a touch of tanning from age. Young Union officer and great American writer, De Forest wrote about what he saw with quiet precision and humor, without favor or prejudice or any concessions to the cherished beliefs of the orthodox in the North or the South.

Record # 32384

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Unknown Heroine, An: An Historical Episode of the War Between the Statesby: Chittenden, L.E.

Unknown Heroine, An: An Historical Episode of the War Between the States
by: Chittenden, L.E.

Hardcover. New York, Richmond, Croscup & Co., 1st Edition, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard. Tan, textured cover boards, Blue title on spine and front cover board, agewear to covers (see image). Gilt top edge. Tanning to pages and edges. Binding tight. In great shape for its age.

Record # 32863

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Urbicide - Sarajevo - Sarajevo, Une Ville Blesseeby: Curic, Borislav/Nedzad Delija/Igor Grozdanic/Nazif Hasanbegovic/Boran Hrelja/Nedzad Hrelja/Aida Kalauzovic-Mandic

Urbicide - Sarajevo - Sarajevo, Une Ville Blessee
by: Curic, Borislav/Nedzad Delija/Igor Grozdanic/Nazif Hasanbegovic/Boran Hrelja/Nedzad Hrelja/Aida Kalauzovic-Mandic

Softcover. Paris, ACAER/GPC, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. French and English text. Black & white photographs. From the introduction: "This catalogue has been re-edited by advanced reading copy wraps en reve architecture centre with the Georges Pompidou Centre, for the presentation in France of the exhibition "Warchitecture-Sarajevo, a wounded city". The exhibition and the catalogue were prepared by the architects of the Sarajevo association, members of the associations of Architects of Bosnia-Herzegovina DAS-SABIH". Light rubbing to cover edges, minor creases at corners. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613730

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Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley 1864, Theby: Walker, Aldace F.

Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley 1864, The
by: Walker, Aldace F.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Free Press Association, 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 191 pages, errata slip in rear, map plates. Brown cloth covers with decorative gilt cross on front and gilt lettering on spine. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 407040

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Vermont General: The Unusual Way Experiences of Edward Hastings Ripley (1862-1865)by: Eisenschiml, Otto (Editor)

Vermont General: The Unusual Way Experiences of Edward Hastings Ripley (1862-1865)
by: Eisenschiml, Otto (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Devin-Adair Company, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 340 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket priceclipped, has a touch of age-wear. Gilt title on spine. Covers bound in blue cloth. Pages and edges have just a touch of age-yellowing. Book is in beautiful condition for its age.

Record # 5560095

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Vermont in the Great Rebellion - Containing Historical and Biographical Sketches, Etc.by: Waite, Major Otis F. R.

Vermont in the Great Rebellion - Containing Historical and Biographical Sketches, Etc.
by: Waite, Major Otis F. R.

Hardcover. Claremont, Tracy, Chase and Company, 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gilt on cover and spine. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612495

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Vermont in the Spanish-American Warby: Johnson, Herbert T./The General Assembly, 1929/State of Vermont

Vermont in the Spanish-American War
by: Johnson, Herbert T./The General Assembly, 1929/State of Vermont

Hardcover. Montpelier, State of Vermont, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with stamping and marking on endpapers. Illustrated with two black & white photographs. Features historical data, Vermont Roster 1898, etc. Green cloth covers with rubbing along edges. Clean, tight.

Record # 612765

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War For the World: A Chronicle of Our Fighting Forces in World War IIby: Fletcher Pratt

War For the World: A Chronicle of Our Fighting Forces in World War II
by: Fletcher Pratt

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. The Chronicles of America Vol. 54. 364 pages, b&w illustrations. Red gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, no dust jacket as issued. Details the campaigns of the U.S. Armed Forces in all theaters of World War II, including Tunisia, France, Italy, the Philippines, and Guadalcanal. A very nice, tight, clean copy in excellent condition.

Record # 397903

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War from the Inside -The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by:

War from the Inside -The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by:

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. From a captain who served in three manor battles the full story of their hardships and trials during the war. 40% casualties being the norm for 9 months service. Inspirational writings on a period of time that continues to have an effect on our country.

Record # 372367

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War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley, The by: Everest, Allan Seymour

War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley, The
by: Everest, Allan Seymour

Hardcover. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, b&w photographs and maps. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 455041

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War Shots: Norm Hatch and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cameramen of World War IIby: Jones, Charles

War Shots: Norm Hatch and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cameramen of World War II
by: Jones, Charles

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, b&w photos. Light scratching to dust jacket front cover. Clean, tight copy. They shot some of the most iconic footage of World War II while risking their lives, yet the stories--and sheer guts--of the U.S. Marine Corps combat cameramen have been overshadowed by the heroism of the men with the rifles. War Shots brings these photographers into sharp focus through the career of Norm Hatch, a true American character whose skill with a camera and knack for being in the right place at the right time thrust him to the fore of the effort to record the Marines at war in the Pacific.

Record # 350450

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