Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S Grant the most important general of the war.Vicksburg, Mississippi,
Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence A remarkable drama unfolded in the months that followed The city s population exploded, its economy was deranged, and its government
Mustard Seed
The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home Oberlin, Ohio, 1868 Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth s beloved
De dood is een zware klus
De oude Syri r Abd al Latief heeft een laatste wens hij wil begraven worden in zijn geboortedorp Op zijn sterfbed vraagt hij zijn zoon Boelboel hem daarheen te brengen Voor Boelboel zit er niets anders op samen met zijn broer Hoessein en zijn zus Fatima gaat hij na hun vaders dood op weg In een
Varina
In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a
Christmas Bells
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play And wild and sweet The words
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America s wartime chief executives It sometimes seems, in retrospect, as if America has been almost continuously at war Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial,
Christmas at Carnton (Carnton, #0.5)
A Christmas novella to launch a brand new three book series The Carnton Novels Amid war and the fading dream of the Confederacy, a wounded soldier and a destitute widow discover the true meaning of Christmas and of sacrificial love Recently widowed, Aletta Prescott struggles to hold life
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
The New York Times bestseller A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American
We Hope for Better Things
When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request that she look up a relative she didn t know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos seems like it isn t worth her time But when she loses her job after a botched investigation, she