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  • Attack at Daylight and Whip Them

    The Battle of Shiloh, April 6–7, 1862

    by Gregory A. Mertz ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    This Civil War history and guide presents an engaging chronicle of the Battle of Shiloh with information and insights about the Tennessee battlefield.The Union Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant, had gathered on the banks of its namesake river at a spot called Pittsburg Landing, ready to strike deep into the heart of Tennessee Confederates, commanded by General ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hell Itself

    The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864

    by Chris Mackowski ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    A Civil War historian recounts the first battle between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—a bloody and horrifying conflict in the Wilderness of Virginia.Known simply as the Wilderness, soldiers called the seventy square miles of dense Virginian forest one of the "waste places of nature" and "a region of gloom." Yet here, in the spring of 1864, the Civil War escalated to a new level of horror ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turning Points of the American Civil War

    by Daniel T. Davis, Stephen Davis, Ryan Longfellow, Gregory A. Mertz, Robert Orrison, Kevin Pawlak, Rea Redd, James A. Morgan III ...
    Series series Engaging the Civil War
    Contributors to this collection, public historians with experience at Civil War battle sites, examine key shifts in the Civil War and the context surrounding them to show that many chains of events caused the course of the war to change: the Federal defeats at First Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff, the wounding of Joseph Johnston at Seven Pines and the Confederate victory at Chancellorsville, the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Translating the Social World for Law

    Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism

    Edited by Elizabeth Mertz, William K. Ford, Gregory Matoesian ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of “translation” as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know that there are many kinds of English or Swahili, so that some form of translation may still be needed even between two people who ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Carnage was Fearful

    The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862

    by Michael Block ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    "Profusely illustrated . . . an extraordinary and detailed account of a major battle that is often overlooked and underappreciated by Civil War historians." — Midwest Book ReviewIn early August 1862, Confederate Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson took to the field with his Army of the Valley for one last fight—one that would also turn out to be his last independent command. Near the base of Cedar ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Chris Bishop ...
    Series Book 111 - New Vanguard
    The Boeing (McDonnell Douglas, formerly Hughes) AH-64A Apache was the US Army's primary attack helicopter, and continues to dominate the skies.The most expensive rotary-winged aircraft ever built when it was introduced in the early 1980s, it has since proved its worth on battlefields all over the world, seeing action in the Gulf War, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq.This book examines the ... Read more

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  • Simply Murder

    The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862

    by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    This Civil War history and guide offers a vivid chronicle of this dramatic yet misunderstood battle, plus invaluable information for battlefield visitors.The battle of Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the most lopsided Union defeat of the Civil War. It is sometimes called "Burnside's folly," after Union commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside who led the Army of the Potomac to ruin along the ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

    by Daniel J Vermilya ...
    This Civil War history presents a lively and detailed study of one of the bloodiest and most important battles fought in Georgia.In the summer of 1864, Georgia was the scene of one of the most important campaigns of the Civil War. William Tecumseh Sherman's push southward toward Atlanta threatened the heart of the Confederacy, and Joseph E. Johnston and the Army of Tennessee were the Confederacy's ... Read more

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  • Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale

    The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863

    by William Lee White ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    The battle of Chickamauga brought an early fall to the Georgia countryside in 1863, where men fell like autumn leaves in some of the heaviest fighting of the war. The battlefield consisted of a nearly impenetrable, vine-choked forest around Chickamauga Creek. Unable to see beyond their immediate surroundings, officers found it impossible to exercise effective command, and the engagement ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Maps of First Bull Run

    An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball's Bluff, June - October 1861

    by Bradley M. Gottfried ...
    Series series Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series
    Bradley M. Gottfried’s The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, June - October 1861 is the eagerly awaited companion volume to his bestselling The Maps of Gettysburg (2007, two editions, four printings), part of the ongoing Savas Beatie Atlas Series.The Maps of First Bull Run breaks down the entire operation (and related ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gettysburg 1863

    High tide of the Confederacy

    by Carl Smith ...
    Series Book 52 - Campaign
    A special extended edition of this compact, illustrated volume on Gettysburg, one of the most popular subjects of the American Civil War.The Confederate invasion of the Northern states was General Lee's last great gamble. By taking the war to the Union he hoped to force Lincoln into peace negotiations, or win support from the European powers who were watching events closely from across the ... Read more

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  • A Long and Bloody Task

    The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5–July 18, 1864

    by Stephen Davis ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    "Explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864 . . . Clear and concise" ( The Civil War Monitor).Poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union's western armies, eyed Atlanta covetously—the South's last great untouched prize. "Get into the interior of the enemy's ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus