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Unforgettable History! Great Battles for Boys is the bestselling history series that sends young readers "into the fight." Boys learn about military leaders, weapons, and strategies that won-or lost-history's most important battles.Want Boys to Read Books? Give them books they WANT to read!History leaps off the page through historic photographs, maps, and short, powerful chapters. Great Battles for Boys will capture the attention of even reluctant...
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Anthology on the subject of the Civil War, a collection of thirty-six essays that examine the war from the perspectives critical to the war's outcome-the larger than life personalities of the important players from Lincoln to Lee and the national strategies and key battle tactics that shaped the four year long crisis.
30) The Civil War
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Describes the events leading up to the Civil War, the major conflicts, the lives of the soldiers, and the outcome of the war.
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" ... [Draws from] letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages and poems to provide an incomparable literary portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction ..."--Dust jacket flap.