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  • From Ironclads to Admiral

    John Lorimer Worden and Naval Leadership

    Throughout his 52-year career, Rear Adm. John Lorimer Worden was always the right officer for the job. The epitome of an innovative commander who helped move the U.S. Navy out of the age of sail and into the era of ironclad technology, Worden’s contributions extended beyond the Battle of Hampton Roads and shaped the future of the Navy. He demonstrated exceptional leadership in both combat and ... Read more

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  • The Power to Arrest

    Lessons from Research

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This insightful volume examines key research questions concerning police decision to arrest as well as police-led diversion. The authors critically evaluate the tentative answers that empirical evidence provides to those questions, and suggest areas for future inquiry.Nearly seven decades of empirical study have provided extensive knowledge regarding police use of arrest. However, this research ... Read more

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    Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

    **Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize, and the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award“A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive Civil War campaign—the Siege of Vicksburg in Vicksburg, Mississippi—which opened the Mississippi ... Read more

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  • A Buff Looks at the American Civil War

    A Look at the United States’ Greatest Conflict from the Point of View of a Civil War Buff

    by Shon Powers ...
    There have been thousands of books put out about the Civil War, but none by a Civil War Buff, so I wrote one. This book was a produce of five years' work and puts the war in a way that casual fans of the war will be surprised at what took place. This book is in three parts: Civil War Timeline: the events, battles, politics, and personal observations of those who were a part of the war. Things that ... Read more

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  • Strangling the Confederacy

    Coastal Operations in the American Civil War

    A historian and Citadel tactical officer examines the Civil War's naval conflicts to shed new light on the Union's vital yet overlooked Anaconda campaign.A selection of the Military Book Club.While the Civil War is mainly remembered for epic land battles, the Union waged an equally important campaign at sea—dubbed "Anaconda"—to gradually deprive the South of industry, commerce, and resources. The ... Read more

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  • War on the Waters

    The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

    Series series Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
    Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war’s naval campaigns and their military leaders.McPherson ... Read more

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  • The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

    The Complete Annotated Edition

    “Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.”—Ron Chernow, author of Grant“Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else… Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a unique glimpse of someone who found that the habit of reflection could serve as a force multiplier for leadership.”—Thomas E. Ricks, Foreign ... Read more

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  • The Civil War on the Mississippi

    Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River

    The naval historian presents a "well-written, fast-paced" study of Civil War riverine combat based on the personal accounts of officers and sailors (Civil War News).As one of the most important transportation systems in the country, the Mississippi River became a strategically vital asset to both sides of the Civil War. The Confederacy relied on the river for cotton exportation as well as food and ... Read more

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  • Triumph & Defeat

    The Vicksburg Campaign

    The study of the Civil War in the Western Theater is more popular now than ever before, and the center of that interest is the months-long Vicksburg Campaign, which is the subject of National Park Historian Terrence J. Winschel's new book Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, Vol 2. Following up on the popular success of his earlier book of the same name, Winschel offers ten new chapters of ... Read more

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  • Lincoln Takes Command

    The Campaign to Seize Norfolk and the Destruction of the CSS Virginia

    by Steve Norder ...
    A detailed history of one week during the Civil War in which the American president assumed control of the nation's military.One rainy evening in May, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln boarded the revenue cutter Miami and sailed to Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia. There, for the first and only time in our country's history, a sitting president assumed direct control of armed forces to launch ... Read more

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  • Alabama and the Civil War

    A History & Guide

    An examination of the influence of the "Heart of Dixie" on the War Between the States—the key players, places, and politics.Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama and the Battle of Mobile Bay all played significant parts. A number of important Civil War figures also called Alabama home. Maj. ... Read more

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  • Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic

    First Naval Actions of the Civil War

    by Jack Coombe ...
    On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that thunderous opening salvo, the naval battles to control the Atlantic coast that followed–daring, savage, and often deadly–were not only crucial in determining the outcome of the war and the fate of a nation, but would change the face of naval warfare forever.GUNSMOKE OVER THE ... Read more

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