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  • The Confederate War

    by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary Gallagher, we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. In ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • The American War

    A History of the Civil War Era

    by Gary W Gallagher, Joan Waugh ...
    Full DescriptionIn The American War: A History of the Civil War Era, renowned historians Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh provide a fresh examination of the Civil War, the great defining moment in U.S. history, as well as its aftermath and enduring memory, in a masterful work that prize-winning historian William C. Davis calls "easily the best one-volume assessment of the Civil War to date." By ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • With the USO in the Pacific During World War II

    The Memoir and Diary of Shirley Rose Gray, June–August 1945

    by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Shirley Rose Gray’s memoir and diary chronicle her World War II experiences with a USO show in the Pacific Theater during the summer of 1945. Part of comedic film actor Eddie Bracken’s troupe of entertainers, the twenty-two-year-old native of Los Angeles performed on bitterly contested islands such as Guam, Peleliu, Tinian, and Saipan, as well as aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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    A Word Is Not a Sparrow

    A Benefit Anthology for Ukraine Relief

    by various authors, Barry Abrams, Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh, Andrea Emmes, Karen Bogle, Vladislav Davidzon, Christopher Dewees, Thaisa Frank, Teresa Johnson0, Alla Kudzieva1, Taras Shevchenko2, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch3 ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams, Andrea Emmes, Jennifer Jill Araya4, Dave Arlington5, Rosemary Benson6, Anna Crowe7, Claudia Dunn8, Gary Furlong9, Rebecca Gallagher0, Caroline Hewitt1, Susan Iannucci2, Elizabeth Jasicki3, Tom Jordan4, Jennifer March5, Janet Metzger6, Rich Miller7, Erin Moon8, Sara Morsey9, Traci Odom0, Sheri Saginor1, Tiffany Williams2, various narrators3 ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 26 min

    Artists in Ukraine have lost their livelihoods. The Ukraine Audiobook Relief Project was launched to support artists in Ukraine whose lives are threatened because of war.It is a fundamental aspect of war to suppress story, language, and culture. Moved by this crisis of culture, members of PANA (the Professional Audiobook Narrators Association) created this audiobook to raise money for Ukrainian ... Read more

    $27.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

    by Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan ...
    A "well-reasoned and timely" ( Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Union War

    by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War—by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment.In a searing analysis of the Civil War ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

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  • Lee and His Generals in War and Memory

    by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    In this collection, Civil War historian Gary W. Gallagher examines Robert E. Lee, his principal subordinates, the treatment they have received in the literature on Confederate military history, and the continuing influence of Lost Cause arguments in the late-twentieth-century United States. Historical images of Lee and his lieutenants were shaped to a remarkable degree by the reminiscences and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lee and His Army in Confederate History

    by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and Lost Cause apologists? These divergent characterizations represent the poles between which ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The American Civil War (1)

    The war in the East 1861–May 1863

    by Gary Gallagher ...
    Series series Guide to...
    The United States saw long-simmering sectional tensions erupt into fighting at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in April 1861.This began what would become the most cataclysmic military struggle in the western world between Waterloo and the First World War. This volume focuses on events in the Virginia theater during the conflict's first two years, highlighting Union and Confederate strengths and ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • The Enduring Civil War

    Reflections on the Great American Crisis

    by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten

    How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War

    by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war — why it was fought, what was won, what was lost — not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art, showing how these stories have both reflected ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Becoming Confederates

    Paths to a New National Loyalty

    by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series Book 54 - Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
    In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early—three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many ways leading up to and during the war. Looking at levels of allegiance to their native state, to the ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD