ISBN:

• 9780307274939 (trade paperback)
• 9780307263438
• 0307263436

Edition: First Vintage Civil War library edition.

Description: xvi, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Notes:

• Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary.
• Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2009.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• North and South divide
• Will there be a war?
• Improvised armies
• Running the war
• The military geography of the Civil War
• The life of the soldier
• Plans
• McClellan takes command
• The war in middle America
• Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West
• Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
• Vicksburg
• Cutting the Chattanooga-Atlanta link
• The overland campaign and the fall of Richmond
• Breaking into the South
• The battle off Cherbourg and the Civil War at sea
• Black soldiers
• The home fronts
• Walt Whitman and wounds
• Civil War generalship
• Civil War battle
• Could the South have survived?
• The end of the war.

LCCN: 2010549679

Control Number: 3366283

Series:

• Vintage Civil War library
• Vintage Civil War library.

Subjects:

• Military geography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
• United States -- Geography.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Strategic aspects.