History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » Book Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Reviews http://www.historynet.com/reviews.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reviews http://www.historynet.com/reviews.htm#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:10:39 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684829 Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt, 2011, $29)

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?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=putting-the-wolverine-states-heroics-under-the-microscope 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 …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/putting-the-wolverine-states-heroics-under-the-microscope.htm/feed 0 Shifting loyalties http://www.historynet.com/shifting-loyalties.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shifting-loyalties http://www.historynet.com/shifting-loyalties.htm#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:11:50 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683879
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Judkin 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 …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/shifting-loyalties.htm/feed 0 A Sesquicentennial three-pack http://www.historynet.com/a-sesquicentennial-three-pack.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-sesquicentennial-three-pack http://www.historynet.com/a-sesquicentennial-three-pack.htm#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 14:25:50 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683605 Stunning photos dominate these coffee table tomes

The Civil War sesquicentennial has spawned a new—and not-so-new—wave of literature designed to introduce a new generation to the nation's seminal conflict. Among the first such books are three profusely illustrated volumes that …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/a-sesquicentennial-three-pack.htm/feed 0 Confederate Alamo http://www.historynet.com/confederate-alamo.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=confederate-alamo http://www.historynet.com/confederate-alamo.htm#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:33:18 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682758 Remembering the Confederates' last stand at Petersburg: The Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg's Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865
by John J. Fox III
Angle Valley Press, 2010, $34.95

Although it typically doesn't attract the attention it merits, April 2, …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/confederate-alamo.htm/feed 1 J.B. Magruder finally gets a second look http://www.historynet.com/j-b-magruder-finally-gets-a-deserved-second-look.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=j-b-magruder-finally-gets-a-deserved-second-look http://www.historynet.com/j-b-magruder-finally-gets-a-deserved-second-look.htm#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:02:20 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682072 John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal

It would be hard to imagine a more vivid biographical sub­ject than John Bank­head Magruder. The colorful, emotional and controversial Con­fed­er­ate general, a notable figure during the Army of Northern Virginia's 1862 defense of …

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Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the Civil War, by James M. McPherson, Oxford University Press, New York,1996, $25.
There are some books that you feel you ought to read, and there are other books that you can enjoy reading. …

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Gunfire Around the Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaign of the Civil War, by Jack D. Coombe, Bantam Books, New York, 1999, $23.95.

In most published accounts, the history of the Civil War is the history of massive land armies …

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New books tackle the 1864 Virginia bloodletting, Walt Whitman and campaigns in the Confederate heartland.

By Donald C. Pfanz

On May 4, 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan River in northern Virginia, inaugurating what may have …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/book-review-to-the-north-anna-river-by-gordon-c-rhea-acw.htm/feed 0 Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background, Tactical Use and Modern Collecting and Shooting (Joseph G. Bilby) : ACW http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-firearms-their-historical-background-tactical-use-and-modern-collecting-and-shooting-joseph-g-bilby-acw.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=civil-war-firearms-their-historical-background-tactical-use-and-modern-collecting-and-shooting-joseph-g-bilby-acw http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-firearms-their-historical-background-tactical-use-and-modern-collecting-and-shooting-joseph-g-bilby-acw.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background, Tactical Use and Modern Collecting and Shooting, by Joseph G. Bilby, Combined Books, Inc., Conshohocken, Pa., $34.95.

This artfully crafted book was honored by the 1997 Small Press Book Awards as a runner-up in …

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