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  • Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    Earl J.Hess’s study of armies and fortifications turns to the 1864 Overland Campaign to cover battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of battlefields at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Bermuda Hundred, and Cold Harbor, , Hess analyzes Union and Confederate movements and tactics and the new w...
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    50,89 €

  • Storming Vicksburg
    Earl J. Hess
    The most overlooked phase of the Union campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the time period from May 18 to May 25, 1863, when Ulysses S. Grant closed in on the city and attempted to storm its defenses. Federal forces mounted a limited attack on May 19 and failed to break through Confederate lines. After two days of preparation, Grant’s forces mounted a much larger as...
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    37,61 €

  • Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare
    Earl J. Hess
    Civil War Torpedoes examines the history of landmine development and use in the Civil War and beyond. The author organizes his scholarship around technology, and morality. Hess uses multiple archival sources to tell a compelling narrative that considers the moral stigma most contemporaries attached to this new weapon of war. ...
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    49,71 €

  • Civil War Infantry Tactics
    Earl J Hess
    For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends that long-range rifle fire did not dominate Civil War battlefields or dramatical...
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    51,00 €

  • Braxton Bragg
    Earl J. Hess
    As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South’s military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the Confederacy. The strongly negative opinions of Bragg’s contemporaries have continued...
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    35,09 €

  • Fighting for Atlanta
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    As William T. Sherman’s Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fortifications located to take advantage of rugged terrain. While the Confederates consistently acted on the defensive, digging eighteen lines of earthworks from May to September, the Federals used fieldworks both defensively and offen...
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    45,36 €

  • The Battle of Peach Tree Creek
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman’s Union forces came ever nearer the city, the defending Confederate Army of Tennessee replaced its commanding general, removing Joseph E. Johnston and elevating John Bell Hood. This decision stunned and demoralized Confederate troops just when Hood was compelled to take the offe...
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    50,86 €

  • Kennesaw Mountain
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864, and Sherman initially tried to outflank the Confederates. His men endured heavy rains, artillery duels, sniping, a...
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    41,11 €

  • Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat
    Earl J. Hess
    The Civil War’s single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we’ve been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, and convincing assessment of the rifle musket’s actual performance on the battlefield and its impact on the course of the Civil War. Many contemporaries were impressed with the new w...
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    27,46 €

  • Lee’s Tar Heels
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolina’s best-known and most successful units during the Civil War. Formed in 1862, the brigade spent nearly a year protecting supply lines before being thrust into its first major combat at Gettysburg. There, James Johnston Pettigrew’s men pushed back the Union’s famed Iron Brigade in vicious fighting on July 1 and playe...
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    50,39 €

  • The Civil War in the West
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the Confederacy. Earl J. Hess’s comprehensive study of how Federal forces conquered and...
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    50,55 €

  • Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications — particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks — used by Confederate and Union field armies at all major battle sites in the eastern theater of the Civil War. Hess moves beyond the technical aspects of construction to demonstrate the crucial role these earthworks played in the success or failure...
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    50,45 €

  • In the Trenches at Petersburg
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess’s trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War. Hess covers all aspects of the Petersburg campaign, from important engagements that punctuated the long months of siege to mining and countermining...
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    50,56 €

  • The Civil War in the West
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the Confederacy. Earl J. Hess’s comprehensive study of how Federal forces conquered and...
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    80,34 €

  • Pickett’s Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett’s Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War. He transforms exhaustive research into a moving narrative account of the assault from both Union and Confederate perspectives, analyzing its planning, execution, aftermath, and legacy. ...
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    43,61 €

  • Pea Ridge
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess / William L. Shea / William LShea
    The 1862 battle of Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas was one of the largest Civil War engagements fought on the western frontier, and it dramatically altered the balance of power in the Trans-Mississippi. This study of the battle is based on research in archives from Connecticut to California and includes a pioneering study of the terrain of the sprawling battlefield, as well ...
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    53,15 €

  • Liberty, Virtue, and Progress
    Earl J Hess
    Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress explores the motivations that casued Northerners to fight America’s Civil War. Arguing for the primary significance of ideals and cultural values in defining a war, the book examines the opinions of both the Northern soldier and civilian about the meaning of the Civil War in terms of defining American ...
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    35,84 €