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Looking for a good book...

Amz · 2004-05-18 18:36:00

(Mark if this is in the wrong place feel free to move it) My dad is very keen on the American Civil War but I've never been able to find a decent book on the era. I've bought him one or two over the years but they've never really held his interest as much as I'd like a book to. Can anyone recommend a decent book on the era…

18-05-2004 7:36pm

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(Mark if this is in the wrong place feel free to move it)

My dad is very keen on the American Civil War but I've never been able to find a decent book on the era. I've bought him one or two over the years but they've never really held his interest as much as I'd like a book to.

Can anyone recommend a decent book on the era as I'd like to maybe pick it up for him for fathers day or something.

Thanks in advance.

A.M.

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#2 18-05-2004 10:21pm

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It depends on your fancy:
Fiction - The Killer Angels triology by Michael Shaara is excellent
Non-fiction - This Hallowed Ground by Bruce Catton
also you could try a Bios
"General Grant" by Perret ,
"Lee" by Freeman
"General Longstreet" by Vert
"Sherman" by Marszalek

also Turtledove did an alternative history version of the Civil War
"Guns of the South" + "Marching through Peacetree"

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