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• September 2008 Book Notes

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 06:05 in america's civil war: the operational battlefield, andersonvilles of the north, antietam south mountain and harpers ferry, books, books - authors, books - new, books - now reading, books - publishers, books - reviews, brady's civil war journal, brian h. reid, brittania's fist

  Those that can’t write, Review! September 2008 James Durney *************************************************************** Book News I have just about given up on publication schedules.  I hav...

• Top 5 Most Important Civil War Books: Brendan Hamilton

  Posted on Friday August 29th, 2008 at 12:05 in blogging, books, books - authors, books - new, books - now reading, books - publishers, books - reviews, brendan hamilton, roll call to destiny, tocwoc blog contest

  Last Friday, I posted Ian Spurgeon’s winning entry in the Roll Call to Destiny Book Contest.  Contestants had to answer the following two questions: What are the five most important books you h...

• Request for Another Civil War Fiction Reviewer

  Posted on Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 17:04 in blogging, book reviews, books, civil war fiction

  Readers, do any of you routinely read and enjoy Civil War-based historical fiction? I ask because I am getting A LOT of requests at TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog to review Civil War historical fiction.  ...

• Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War Bestsellers: August 2008

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 06:01 in battle cry of freedom, books, civil war on the web, confederates in the attic, daniel mark epstein, david h. donald, donald phillips, donald t. phillips, doris kearns goodwin, drew gilpin faust, frederick douglass, harriey jacobs

  Last month I took a look at the Amazon.com top 10 Civil War bestsellers.  Now I’d like to take a look again and see how (if?) this list has changed much over time. I’ve taken the liberty of r...

• Civil War Books and More During Book Blogger Appreciation Week!

  Posted on Saturday August 23rd, 2008 at 14:47 in blogging, book blogger appreciation week, books, contest

  My Friend Amy has decided to launch Book Blogger Appreciation Week from September 15-19, 2008. If you are a book blogger, feel free to join up. All blogs enrolled will be placed on a list of book bl...

• Last Chance to Win a FREE Civil War Book

  Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 13:30 in blogging, books, brent nosworthy, free book contest, roll call to destiny

  All, you have a little over one day remaining to answer the questions: What are the five most important books you have read on the Civil War?  Why is each important? Why answer the questions you ask?...

• Review in Brief: Disaster in the West Woods by Marion Armstrong

  Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 06:05 in books, books - reviews, disaster in the west woods, eastern theater, edwin v. sumner, ii corps, john sedgwick, marion armstrong, military history, strategy & tactics, west woods, william french

  Marion V. Armstrong. Disaster in the West Woods: General Edwin V. Sumner and the II Corps at Antietam. Western Maryland Interpretive Association (2002). 78 pages, 6 maps, notes, bibliography, index. A...

• The Battle of Massard Prairie by Dale Cox: Now in Hardcover

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 13:20 in books, books - authors, books - new, dale cox, hardcover, lulu, the battle of massard prairie

  Dale Cox, author of The Battle of Massard Prairie, recently announced on his Arkansas in the Civil War blog that the book is now being offered in a hardcover edition.  The book goes for $24.95 plus s...

• Controversies of a Campaign: Why Did French Attack the Sunken Road At Antietam?

  Posted on Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 10:29 in antietam, books, books - new, books - now reading, controversies of a campaign, eastern theater, edwin v. sumner, french's division, marion v. armstrong, military history, strategy & tactics, sunken road

  I just finished reading Marion V. Armstrong’s new book Unfurl Those Colors!: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign, and one of Armstrong’s theories just doe...

• New Military History Reading Challenge: TOCWOC’s Selections

  Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 00:01 in books, books - now reading, d.w. reed, eric j. wittenberg, j.d. petruzzi, marion v. armstrong, michael nugent, military history, military history reading challenge, one continuous fight, strategist's personal library, the battle of shiloh and the organizations engaged

  Strategist’s Personal Library is hosting a new “Military history reading challenge“.  The idea is for bloggers to choose three military history books to read and link back to the or...

• A Guide to Civil War Books for Beginners, Part 1: Civil War Overviews

  Posted on Monday July 21st, 2008 at 06:47 in book list, books, civil war books, civil war readers, civil war research, education, guide

  This is the first of hopefully many blog entries for beginning Civil War readers about Civil War books they might like to read.  This is not a post aimed at children or young adults, though I do hope...