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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Autographs (Provenance) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: McPherson, James M. Crossroads of freedom. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2002025252 (OCoLC)49355607 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James M McPherson |
ISBN: | 9780199726738 0199726736 9780195135213 0195135210 0195184521 9780195184525 9786610473342 661047334X |
OCLC Number: | 57137257 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 203 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Introduction: death in September -- The pendulum of war, 1861-1862 -- Taking off the kid gloves, June-July 1862 -- "The federals got a very complete smashing", August-September 1862 -- Showdown at Sharpsburg -- The beginning of the end. |
Series Title: | Pivotal moments in American history. |
Responsibility: | James M. McPherson. |
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This concise, elegantly written book by the commanding general of the army of American Civil War historians brilliantly captures the larger meaning of the war through the prism of one bloody and pivotal battle * The Times Literary Supplement * [McPherson] does a superb job of re-creating a moment when the war, and all of American history that followed, might have gone altogether differently McPherson is the preeminent historian of the Civil War * Washington Post * Read more...

