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Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 22. Hardcover Cloth 555 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1965 with W on colophon page. Lovely grey and green boards and silver and embossing shows off this tight, square copy with no marks or highlights. Previous owner's bookplate on frontpapers. Book Well kept and carefully stored with Slight shelf wear. Bumped corners. Spotting to top edge. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket | protected by mylar cover with slight shelf wear - a few stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library or remainder copy. The final volume of Bruce Catton's monumental Centennial History of the Civil War traces the war from Fredericksburg through the succeeding grim and relentless campaigns to the Courthouse at Appomattox and the death of Lincoln.This is an eloquent study of the bitterest years of the war when death slashed the country with a brutality unparalleled in the history of the United States. Through the kaleidoscope tone and temper of the struggle, two men, different in stature, but similar in dedication to their awesome tasks, grappled with the burden of being leaders both in politics and war. In the north Lincoln remained resolute in the belief that a house divided against itself could not stand. His determination and uncanny vision of the destiny of the country and its people far transcended the plaguing tensions, fears, and frustrations of his cabinet and Congress. Mr. Lincoln's use of vast resources is brilliantly contrasted to Davis's valiant struggle for political and economic stability in a hopelessly fragmented and underdeveloped south. Though Davis never lacked for spirit and dedication, his handicaps were severe. This was not a war to be won by static ideals and romanticism. As Mr. Lincoln managed to expand and intensify the ideals that sustained the Northern war effort, Mr. Davis was never able to enlarge the South's. This was a war to be won by flexibility in though, strength in supplies, and battles. And so they were fought--Fredericksburg, The Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. 22. The Centennial History of the Civil War 3 VOLUME SET (The Coming Fury / Terrible Swift Sword / Never Call Retreat) by Bruce Catton.Bruce Catton's monumental Centennial History of the Civil War complete in three volumes. Catton shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war-an epic struggle for freedom.Mixed printings with NO dust jackets. None are ex-library or remainder copies.Multivolume set is heavier than standard book; S and H will be adjusted.Set Condition Very Good NO Dust Jackets. Mixed set of three volumes with lovely grey boards with blue buckram spine and red stripe red and silver embossing. Set is a tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Books well kept and carefully stored with slight shelf wear. Mixed topstains. Edges and pages are lightly toned. A few bumped corners. Some stains and fading to covers. Spotting to edges. Index in each volume with maps on endpapers.A great reading copy of this best selling set.The Coming Fury Hardcover Cloth 565 pages. Presumed First edition 1961.Terrible Swift Sword Hardcover Cloth 559 pages. Presume First edition 1963.Never Call Retreat Hardcover Cloth 555 pages. Presumed First edition 1965.Volume 1: The Coming Fury documents the initial progress of the conflict from the secession crisis triggered by the 1860 election results to the conclusion of First Bull Run. Picking up as it does in 1860 the book is a remarkable introduction to the U.S. Civil War, not least because of the engaging style that Catton brings to the field of popular history. Over sixty years after its publication, the book still holds up superbly, and retains a place on the list of essential Civil War reads.Volume 2: In Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton tells the story of the Civil War as never before-of two turning points which changed the scope and meaning of the war. First, he describes how the war slowly but steadily got out of control. This would not be the neat, short, "limited" war both sides had envisioned. And then the author reveals how the sweeping force of all-out conflict changed the war's purpose, in turning it into a war for human freedom. It was not initially a war against slavery. Instead, this was, Mr. Lincoln kept insisting, a fight to reunite the United States.At first, it was not even much of a fight. Cautious generals; inexperienced, incompetent, or jealous administrators; shortages of good people and supplies; excess of both gloom and optimism, kept each side from swinging into decisive action. As the buildup began, there were maddening delays. The earliest engagements were halting and inconclusive.After these first tests at arms, reputations began to crumble. Buell, Halleck, Beauregard, Albert Sidney Johnston. Failed to drive ahead-for reasons good and bad. General McClellan (impaled in these pages on the arrogant words of his letters) captured more imaginations than enemies, and continued to accept serious over estimates of Confederate strength while becoming more and more fatally estranged from his own government.Volume 3 Never Call Retreat: The final volume of Bruce Catton's monumental Centennial History of the Civil War traces the war from Fredericksburg through the succeeding grim and relentless campaigns to the Courthouse at Appomattox and the death of Lincoln.This is an eloquent study of the bitterest years of the war when death slashed the country with a brutality unparalleled in the history of the United States. Through the kaleidoscope tone and temper of the struggle, two men, different in stature, but similar in dedication to their awesome tasks, grappled with the burden of being leaders both in politics and war.In the north Lincoln remained resolute in the belief that a house divided against itself could not stand. His determination and uncanny vision of the destiny of the country and its people far transcended the plaguing tensions, fears, and frustrations of his cabinet and Congress. Mr. Lincoln's use of vast resources is brilliantly contrasted to Davis's valiant struggle for political and economic stability in a hopelessly fragmented and underdeveloped south.Though Davis never lacked for spirit and dedication, his handicaps were severe. This was not a war to be won by static ideals and romanticism. As Mr. Lincoln managed to expand and intensify the ideals that sustained the Northern war effort, Mr. Davis was never able to enlarge the South's.This was a war to be won by flexibility in thought, strength in supplies, and battles. And so they were fought--Fredericksburg, The Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover Cloth Mr. Lincoln's Army edition 1962 363 pages / Glory Road edition 1952 395 pages / A Stillness at Appomattox edition 1953 438 pages.All Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good.Nice Ex-library set with blue boards and red spines featuring black boxing and silver embossing. Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Regular edition Books Well kept and carefully stored with slight shelf wear. The usual yellowing with minor signs of wear and/or age. Some bumped corners. Previous owner's address label and ex-library stamp on each volume endpapers. Ex-library stamp on each volume top edge. Mylar protected, unclipped dust jackets smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear and fading. Not an book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.America's premier chronicler of the nation's brutal internecine conflict, Bruce Catton is renowned for his unparalleled ability to bring a detailed and vivid immediacy to Civil War battlefields and military strategy sessions. With tremendous depth and insight, he presents legendary commanders and common soldiers in all their complex and heartbreaking humanity.The first volume of Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army presents a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered President Abraham Lincoln entrusted the dashing, charismatic McClellan with the creation of the Union's Army of the Potomac and the responsibility of leading it to a swift and decisive victory against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Although a brilliant tactician who was beloved by his troops and embraced by the hero-hungry North, McClellan's ego and ambition ultimately put him at loggerheads with his commander in chief-a man McClellan considered unworthy of the presidency.McClellan's weaknesses were exposed during the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history, which ended in a stalemate even though the Confederate troops were greatly outnumbered. After Antietam, Lincoln ordered McClellan's removal from command, and the Union entered the war's next chapter having suffered thousands of casualties and with great uncertainty ahead.In 'Glory Road' the second book of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy covers what happened next; As the War Between the States moved through its second bloody year, General Ambrose Burnside was selected by President Lincoln to replace the ineffectual George "Little Mac" McClellan as commander of the Union Army. But the hope that greeted Burnside's ascension was quickly dashed in December 1862 in the wake of his devastating defeat at Fredericksburg.Following Burnside's exit, a mediocre new commander, Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker, turned a sure victory into tragedy at Chancellorsville, continuing the Union's woes and ensuring Robert E. Lee's greatest triumph of the war. But the tide began to turn over the course of three days in July 1863, when the Union won a decisive victory on the battlefield of Gettysburg. Months later, Lincoln would give his historic address on this ground, honoring the fallen soldiers and strengthening the Union Army's resolve to fight for a united and equal nation for all of its people.In 'A Stillness at Appomattox' the final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Catton, takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbor, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee vividly come to life in all their failings and triumphs.

hardback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Top edge of spine slightly frayed but binding square and tight; text good . Xlib US army, DJ flaps tipped in ; Ex-Library; 9.1 X 6.1 X 2.2 inches.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Rockwell Kent (illustrator). The Cambridge Edition Text, 1527pp., with a preface by Christopher Morley. Edges of spine slightly flecked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 366 pages. Complete with all sixteen of the Magnavox collection full colour illustrations.Front of dust jacket and publisher's burb tipped in at the front paste down. Top edge tanned and lightly chipped, spine slightly frayed at top.