{"product_id":"civil-war-in-books","title":"Civil War in Books","description":"With the assistance of several scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eicher has selected for inclusion in \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War in Books\u003c\/i\u003e the 1,100 most important books on the war. These are organized into categories as wide-ranging as \"Battles and Campaigns,\" \"Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters,\" \"Unit Histories,\" and \"General Works.\" The last of these includes volumes on black Americans and the war, battlefields, fiction, pictorial works, politics, prisons, railroads, and a host of other topics. Annotations are included for all entries in the work, which is presented in an oversized 8 1\/2 x 11 inch volume in two-column format. Appendixes list \"prolific\" Civil War publishers and other Civil War bibliographies, and the works included in Eicher's mammoth undertaking are indexed by author or editor and by title.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gary Gallagher's foreword traces the development of Civil War bibliographies and declares that Eicher's annotation exceeds that of any previous comprehensive volume. \u003ci\u003eThe Civil \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar in Books,\u003c\/i\u003e Gallagher believes, is \"precisely the type of guide\" that has been needed. The first full-scale, fully-annotated bibliography on the Civil War to appear in more than thirty years, Eicher's \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War in Books\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable compendium of the best reading available about the worst conflict ever to strike the United States. The bibliography, the most valuable reference book on the subject since \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War Day by Day, \u003c\/i\u003ewill be essential for college and university libraries, dealers in rare and secondhand books, and Civil War buffs.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54263302652248,"sku":"9780252022739","price":54.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/civil-war-in-books","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}