![]() |
![]() |
#1
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Bon dia!
Searching for a little advice here:
Thanks in advance ![]()
__________________
L'Argonauta, rol en català |
#2
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
As long as the book seller has a good rating I would not have problem buying used. I have purchased about 15 books used and have never had an issue with quality. Regarding the Civil War. I have to be honest and say that for an unbiased overview I feel the best source is the Ken Burns documentary "The Civil War". Rarely do I feel that video can surpass the written word, but here Mr. Burns succeeds. Last edited by kato13; 04-12-2017 at 05:40 PM. Reason: typo noticed 8 years later. |
#3
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
![]()
__________________
![]() |
#4
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
It is 11 hours IIRC. It is one of the few things where I will drop everything to watch it.
*** removed**** here is the introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN2huQB-DmE found another link to the first ~4 min. This one is from Ken himself so it should stay up. Last edited by kato13; 04-12-2017 at 05:40 PM. Reason: removed dead link |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
As a bit of an ACW nut I would recommend the trilogy by Shelby Foote (who charmingly featured in Ken Burns' series)
The Civil War, A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville The Civil War, A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian The Civil War, A Narrative: Red River to Appomatox While these are three chunky books, they are beautifully written and will definately whet your interest. I can pretty much guarantee you will be asking about detailed treatments of individual campaigns in a few months after having read these and watched the TV series. Malcolm |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
I can only answer re the buying of used books from Amazon (or rather from independant booksellers via Amazon) - I have bought a dozen or so and the quality has always been as described.
|
#7
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Battle cry of Freedom by McPherson was a great one-volume book of the ACW.
__________________
My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988. |
#8
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
Shelby Foote's three volume narrative history of the war is really good but quite long.
__________________
Author of Twilight 2000 adventure modules, Rook's Gambit and The Poisoned Chalice, the campaign sourcebook, Korean Peninsula, the gear-book, Baltic Boats, and the co-author of Tara Romaneasca, a campaign sourcebook for Romania, all available for purchase on DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...--Rooks-Gambit https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...ula-Sourcebook https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...nia-Sourcebook https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...liate_id=61048 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/...-waters-module |
#9
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
__________________
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com |
#10
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
My experience buying used books through Amazon Marketplace sellers has been mostly good. However, I did just buy two books described as "Like New" that came in decidedly worse condition than advertized.
__________________
Author of Twilight 2000 adventure modules, Rook's Gambit and The Poisoned Chalice, the campaign sourcebook, Korean Peninsula, the gear-book, Baltic Boats, and the co-author of Tara Romaneasca, a campaign sourcebook for Romania, all available for purchase on DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...--Rooks-Gambit https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...ula-Sourcebook https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...nia-Sourcebook https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...liate_id=61048 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/...-waters-module |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
![]() Quote:
Sir, I think you are mistaken. You mean the war of the Rebellion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
__________________
"God bless America, the land of the free, but only so long as it remains the home of the brave." |
#12
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
![]()
__________________
![]() |
#13
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Nope... the war of northern aggression is quite accurate. the majority of the northern citizens (and the supreme court for that matter) saw the succession of the southern states as just. since member states of a republic have the right to leave if they decide it is in their best interest to leave... Because the moment you are not able to leave peacefully through succession... You cease being a republic and become an empire.
I'm from North Carolina. The last state to join the confederate states.. succession was something us North Carolinians did NOT favor, right up until Linclon ordered the North Carolina Militia to raise three regiments and ordered them to deploy into South Carolina to 'put down the rebellion'... In fact Zebulon Vance, our US Senator at the time was travelling through the state holding rally's to support remaining in the Union, right up until he got the telegram ordering the militia to mobilize and go into SC. At the same rally, he went from saying that NC will stay in the Union no matter what... To saying, it's time to succeed and here is why. The states had the right to succeed, and this is why NONE of the leaders of the CSA had been tried for treason. Especially when it would have gone to the Supreme Court who would have classifed the 'Civil War' as a war of aggression against a seperate sovereign state and that the Union would have had to withdraw and pay repreations to the south thanks to Sherman's March through the south.... Besides a Republic only exists when the union that creates it is voluntary, and when that union becomes something that can be enforced, it becomes an Empire. That was one of the under current stories in Star Wars if you look hard enough. ![]() |
#14
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
The Civil War is essentially a purely historical issue for me, especially since my BA is in History with a concentration in Military History. I'm a military brat with a Croatian mother and a biological father whose family is from Massachusetts, and a stepmonster from Arkansas. I'm basically a typical mutt American.
__________________
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com |
#15
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
My state has come close to trying to secede from the Commonwealth of Australia a couple of times but there is no way the rest of the country would have let it happen - Western Australia's mineral wealth and other resources are just too valuable to be let go.
__________________
![]() |
#16
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
__________________
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com |
#17
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
![]() My family has been from NC since the founding. I am a desendent of Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr. a signer of the constitution for NC and one of the men who pushed so hard for the Bill of Rights. he and his son would serve as both state governor and as a representative in the US Congress. On, and I learned that he had died in a duel... Sometimes i wish we still had legalized deuling. It could make life alot simpiler (and cause people to be alot more polite as well). I guess you could say I am technically a German-American since the Spaights/Speight/Spake/Spaak/Spakiov family started out in the German state of Pommerania... But as far as I am concered... I am an American pure and simple. ![]() |
#18
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Thanks for the feedback, guys.
![]() And I will take the risk with Amazon.
__________________
L'Argonauta, rol en català |
#19
|
|||
|
|||
![]() Quote:
__________________
My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988. |
#20
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
It's been nearly eight years since I started this thread!!!???
![]() Well... I've make my homework. I started with the Ken Burns documentary (one of the best documentary works I’ve seen about history). It served to grow my interest in the subject, and I think this is the best things anyone can say about a documentary. I followed with MacPherson’s Battlecry for Freedom, a good book to understand the overall picture and the prewar years (I was specially ignorant about the vertiginous development of the United States in the two decades before the war). Then I take a rest from history essays with Gods and Generals and Killer Angels. After the novels, I find a series of lessons of the Yale University in Youtube. And, with an incredible fortune, I found the three volumes of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative on the shelves of a role-playing game / wargame shop in Barcelona, while I was looking for something else. This was two years ago. I’ve read the first two volumes and I’m reading the third right now. And I must say I’m enjoying it very much. Although the more literary style of Foote it’s a hard exam for my English skill level, the vividly way in which he explains every letter, conference, battle, travel and speech keeps me hooked to the reading. So, even after eight years, thank you for your recommendations. ![]()
__________________
L'Argonauta, rol en català |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
If you want any books that focus more on equipment from the War to Preserve Slavery, my recommendations would be Earl J. Hess' The Rifled Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth (2008, University Press of Kansas) and Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War (Olmstead, Hazlett, and Parks, 1983/2004, University of Illinois Press).
__________________
Writer at The Vespers War - World War I equipment for v2.2 |
#22
|
|||
|
|||
![]() Quote:
|
#23
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol 3: Red River to Appomattox
__________________
L'Argonauta, rol en català |
#24
|
|||
|
|||
![]() Quote:
|
#25
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
If you liked McPherson's Battle Cry... (it's the best single volume history of the war and its origins out there, IMO), he's written several other works about campaigns and battles of the Civil War. I received his book about the naval side of the Civil War a couple of years ago but haven't read it yet.
__________________
Author of Twilight 2000 adventure modules, Rook's Gambit and The Poisoned Chalice, the campaign sourcebook, Korean Peninsula, the gear-book, Baltic Boats, and the co-author of Tara Romaneasca, a campaign sourcebook for Romania, all available for purchase on DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...--Rooks-Gambit https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...ula-Sourcebook https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...nia-Sourcebook https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...liate_id=61048 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/...-waters-module |
#26
|
|||
|
|||
![]() Quote:
Edit: Also, Random House did a 2005 printing in nine volumes, splitting each of the original books into three.
__________________
Writer at The Vespers War - World War I equipment for v2.2 |
#27
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Anything by Bruce Catton is highly recommended. Still can get copies on Amazon quite cheap.
Bruce Catton is still the dean of American military historians and the Civil War. He tells his story with wit, verve, accuracy, and the feeling of having been there. Unfortunately, like other great American historians who have passed on, such as John R. Elting, Frederick P. Todd, H. Charles McBarron, and Anne Brown, we won't see his like again. In this marvelous first volume of his trilogy of the great, luckless, and hard-used Army of the Potomac, Catton tells the story of an army in search of a commander that can win with it. After the first botched attempt at First Bull Run, the army gets a commander who knows how to organize and train them, Goerge McClellan. What he cannot do, however, is lead them in combat. McClellan doesn't have the killer instinct of a true independent commander, nor does he have the requisite moral character to send the army into the fire, accept the losses needed to win, and be done with it. What he condemns his beloved army to is three years of defeats and heavy losses, punctuated by the few glorious moments, such as Gettysburg, where, despite the deficiencies of its many commanders, it fights on until final victory. This volume tells of the growing and training of the Army of the Potomac, the heartbreak of the Peninsular Campaign, and the thrown away opportunity at Second Bull Run. We meet famous units, such as the 5th New Hampshire, the immortal Iron Brigade of western regiments, the Irish Brigade under such regimental and brigade commanders as John Gibbon, Israel Richardson, Francis Barlow, Phil Kearney, and Grimes Davis. Grimly enduring, faithful to the Republic, stolid in the defense and gallant in the attack, the Army of the Potomac, repeatedly defeated and badly led at the army level, comes back time and again to face its foe.
__________________
************************************* Each day I encounter stupid people I keep wondering... is today when I get my first assault charge?? |
#28
|
|||
|
|||
![]() Quote:
|
![]() |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Books/novels | kcdusk | Twilight 2000 Forum | 2 | 10-01-2008 06:38 AM |