Category: James Durney’s Book Notes
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Review: Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, Jenifer Frank Product Details Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 15, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0345467833 ISBN-13: 978-0345467836 Over stated, simplified and questionable This is history for people who do not read history and have little intention to change. […]
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Review: War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta
(Ed. Note: This review was of a prepublication proof of War Like the Thunderbolt, which is due out in September 2009.) War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta by Russell S. Bonds Product Details Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Westholme Publishing Language: English ISBN-10: 1594161003 ISBN-13: 978-1594161001 Atlanta is the focus This is […]
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Review: Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg by James A. Hessler Product Details Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (June 29, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1932714642 ISBN-13: 978-1932714647 If this were fiction, I would say the author’s main character is not […]
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August 2009 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! August 2009 James Durney *************************************************************** We Have Books! After months of waiting the summer publishing season is here. A number of books we have been following are in stores and filling mailboxes. J. David Petruzzi’s The Complete Gettysburg Guide made the bookstores in time for July. This beautiful book is […]
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Review: Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution & Surprising Release of Jefferson Davis
Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution & Surprising Release of Jefferson Davis (Paperback) by Clint Johnson Product Details Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Citadel; Reprint edition (June 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0806528915 ISBN-13: 978-0806528915 Clint Johnson has written a book that works on many levels. This is a concise biography of Jefferson Davis. This is a […]
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Review: In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat
In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat by Earl J. Hess Product Details Hardcover: 480 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English ISBN-10: 0807832820 ISBN-13: 978-0807832820 Joined with “Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns” and “Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in […]
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Review: Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863
Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863 (Hardcover) by Donald S. Frazier Product Details Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: State House/McWhiney Foundation Press (July 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1933337362 ISBN-13: 978-1933337364 After the fall of New Orleans, Civil War history moves away from Louisiana & Texas. “Beast” […]