Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks: A Guide to the National Park Sites: With Official National Park Service Ma PS for Each Site

Vandiver, Frank E

ISBN 10: 0679448985 / ISBN 13: 9780679448983

Published by Random House Inc, 1996

About this Item

This book remains in very good condition - "shows signs of wear, but no tears". All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Possibly light scuffs and/or edge wear and/or creases, marks, scuffs. Wonderful item to add to a collection. See images.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks: A Guide to the National Park Sites: With Official National Park Service Ma PS for Each Site
• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679448985
• ISBN 13: 9780679448983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 8.75W x 11.75H x 0.75D inches 8.75 inches width by 11.75 inches height by 0.75 inches depth
• Weight: 35 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History
  • War
  • Military

About this title

Synopsis

A richly illustrated journey to some of the most important battlefields and landmarks of the Civil War--from Fort Sumter to Appomattox--is accompanied by campaign and official National Parks Service maps, eyewitness accounts, biographical profiles, and other valuable information.

About the Author

Frank E. Vandiver is a scholar of military history whose distinguished work has earned him fellowships and honors at both American and European universities. Dr. Vandiver is Chairman of the Board of the Mosher Institute for International Policy studies and President Emeritus of Texas A&M University. He is also that university's first Distinguished University Professor, a Rockefeller Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a former Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford, England and visiting professor at the United States Military Academy, West Point. Among his published works of military history are twenty books, including: Their Tattered Flags: The Epic of the Confederacy (Harper's Magazine Press, 1970-Jefferson Davis Award of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society; Fletcher Pratt Award), Mighty Stone