History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » ACW Book Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Book Reviews - May 2013 http://www.historynet.com/book-reviews-may-2013.htm http://www.historynet.com/book-reviews-may-2013.htm#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:10:40 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687866 Year of Glory: The Life and Battles of Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, June 1862-June 1863 by Monte Akers, Casemate 2012, $32.95

The 12 months covered in this book—June 1862 to June 1863—arguably marked Jeb Stuart's zenith as the Army …

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For nearly three decades, Stephen W. Sears' Land­­scape Turned Red has been the gold standard among books about the September 1862 Maryland …

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The last men in the ragged gray line to emerge from the chilly morning mists and stack arms one final time were from Texas. They …

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James M. McPherson, perhaps the greatest historian of the Civil War, continues to find aspects of the conflict that …

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At the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth in 2009, a new area of Lincoln studies emerged: his legacy outside the United States after the Civil War …

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Belknap Press , 2011, $27.95

Just before his death in 1870, Robert E. Lee wrote in a letter to a former aide, Lt. Col. Charles Marshall, …

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Tony Horwitz is one of today's keenest commentators on the American character. In Midnight Rising, he turns his intuitive eye …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/reviews.htm/feed 0 Putting the Wolverine State's heroics under the microscope http://www.historynet.com/putting-the-wolverine-states-heroics-under-the-microscope.htm http://www.historynet.com/putting-the-wolverine-states-heroics-under-the-microscope.htm#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:53:24 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684030 Two new books celebrate, in mostly commendable fashion, Michigan's contributions to the Civil War. Rick Liblong's Answering the Call to Duty: Saving Custer, Heroism at Gettysburg, POWs and Other Stories of Michigan's Small Town Soldiers in the Civil War (Arbutus …

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Historynet ImageJudkin Browning's new book examines the Union occupation of eastern North Carolina

The residents of New Bern, N.C., awoke on the morning of March 14, 1862, to what sounded like thunder rolling up the Neuse River. It was …

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