9780831713386 - First with the Most: Nathan Bedford Forrest the Civil War Library by Henry, Robert Selph (13 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint, 2nd printing; c.r. 1991. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine book in like DJ. Spine slant, else About Fine w/ firm binding, unmarked; jacket has wrinkle at crown, 2" blue line front flap. 558pp inc. Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in maps. 558 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good (small fault). Light ripple on pages 445-452.

brown hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges have a few faint spots. fox spots inside front & rear covers, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond., spine top chipped & rubbed, not torn or price clipped (no pricel listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 2nd printing (#2 in # line) of this reprint edition. 558p. 10 b&w maps. notes. bibliography. index. biography. american history. american civil war. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest did not invent mobilized guerilla warfare, but he did modernize and polish it to an extent that has left few theoretical areas for improvement. Tanks and jeeps, it could even be said, do not possess the mobility relative to the main force which they attack that Forrest's dedicated band of horsemen enjoyed. Following in the footsteps of Francis Marion and Lighthorse Harry Lee, American practitioners of the devastating hit~and~run cavalry attack of the Revolutionary War, Forrest raised their effective but geographically limited campaigns to an art~form spread over the widest possible tactical theatre. He accomplished this with superior knowledge of terrain and of horses coupled with an iron will, a complete disregard for physical exhaustion (his own and that of his men) and, this book will demonstrate, by the most admirable sort of sheer country orneriness. Forrest, a man of simple upbringing, is the perfect symbol for the odd melange that was the Confederate Army; patrician West Pointers like Lee side by side by unregenerate racists like Forrest. These well~bred students of battles from the classical era were not prevented by an almost unimaginable difference in class from being able to recognize the tactical genius of a farmer from the low country. Nor were they sufficiently threatened by Forrest's innate comprehension of the sort of war required to prevent Forrest from becoming the only enlisted man in the entire Civil War to achieve the rank of a General. That any scholar of this history of warfare would have to judge Forrest rather more harshly for his conduct after the war than this conduct during it is just another tragic aspect of the larger tragedy that generated The War Between the States. Heroes rose from unlikely places and returned, when the time for heroism had past, to their more unheroic pursuits. Whether that return negates the valor shown during the conflict is only for you to determine, after you have learned of Forrest's life in all its aspects, heroic, and less so.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The only flaw is a name stamped inside the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. Second SmithMark printing. New York: SmithMark Publishers, Inc. , 1991. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. No chips or tears. Brief gift note on the pastedown endpaper. Clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. No bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with 10 maps. A reprint of the 1944 original. From the Introduction: "Nathan Bedford Forrest did not invent mobilized guerilla warfare, but he did modernize and polish it to an extent that has left few theoretical areas for improvement. Forrest, a man of simple upbringing, is the perfect symbol for the odd mélange that was the Confederate Army; patrician West Pointers like Lee side by side by unregenerate racists like Forrest. Nor were they sufficiently threatened by Forrest's innate comprehension of the sort of war required to prevent Forrest from becoming the only enlisted man in the entire Civil War to achieve the rank of a General." Cited by Nevins 62, Civil War Books, A Critical Bibliography: "A carefully documented, detailed study of Forrest's wartime campaigns." Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Second SmithMark printing. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 558pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: VERY GOOD. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is tanned on reverse, short tear to foot of spine. New archival mylar dj cover. 24 cm. 558 pages. -- Please feel free to request additional information, or detailed photos. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging, with tracking and insurance.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***please read*** name inside cover with light pencil - no marks on text - dj has a small tear on the edge - my shelf location - 18-f-4*.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1994 Edition. slight foxing and speckling on pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 558 pp; Book has previous owner's stamp and gift dedication on fly leaf. Otherwise a new book and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. signature on front endpaper Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. New Edn. 558pp. Maps. Size: 8vo.