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The American Civil War

The Battle of Troy

The History of The American West

The Search for Alien Life

The Battle of The Alamo

The Story of Robin Hood

The Story of The Criminal Justice System

Kids During the American Civil War (Hardcover)

by Lisa A. Wroble

A story from a child's perspective on the Civil War covering industrialization in the North, agriculture and slavery in the South, and daily life in both areas.

Ages 9-12

Pages 24

List Price: $19.95 New

Children of the Civil War (Picture the American Past) (Hardcover)

by Candice F. Ransom

Explores the lives of children during the Civil War, including those who joined armies, others who stayed home, and the large numbers made homeless because of the conflict.

Ages 9-12

Pages 48

List Price: $13.80 New

With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War (Mass Market Paperback)

by James Collier (Author), Christopher Collier (Contributor)

"When they brought Pa home from the war all shot up, he said he might die, and he did, too..."

Ages 9-12

Pages 235

List Price: $6.99 New

The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale (Tale of Young Americans) (Hardcover)

by Trinka Hakes Noble (Author), Robert Papp (Illustrator)

This Civil War story resonates with courage and fear, love and loyalty. Eleven-year-old Gabriel has followed his 16-year-old brother Davy to war after their older brothers were killed fighting. As a bugler for the Union Army, Gabe has the important job of blowing orders to the troops. On the day before the Battle of Gettysburg...

Ages 4-8

Pages 48

List Price: $14.00 New

Civil War Days: Discover the Past with Exciting Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes (Paperback)

by David C. King (Author), Cheryl Kirk Noll (Author)

Discusses what life was like for Americans during the Civil War; follows a year in the lives of two fictional families: a white family from the South and a Black family from the North; and presents projects and activities from that time period.

Ages 9-11

Pages 98

List Price: $11.01 New

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) (Paperback)

by James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson, who won the Pulitzer Prize for this book, impressively combines a brisk writing style with an admirable thoroughness. He covers the military aspects of the war in all of the necessary detail, and also provides a helpful framework describing the complex economic, political, and social forces behind the conflict.

Pages 952

List Price: $13.57 New

The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows (Hardcover)

by Gabor Boritt

In this engrossing study, Civil War scholar Boritt (editor of The Lincoln Enigma) offers a revealing history of that most famous piece of American oratory, the Gettysburg Address. Boritt opens with an evocative description of a stench-filled, corpse-strewn Gettysburg on July 4, 1863, after the battle. When Lincoln arrived a few months later to dedicate the national cemetery, he had an important task: "to explain to the people," writes Borritt, in plain, powerful prose, "why the bloodletting must go on."

Pages 432

List Price: $18.48 New

Eyewitness to the Civil War (Hardcover)

by Steve Hyslop

At once an informed overview for general-interest readers and a superb resource for serious buffs, this extraordinary, gloriously illustrated volume is sure to become one of the fundamental books in any Civil War library. Its features include a dramatic narrative packed with eyewitness accounts and hundreds of rare photographs, artifacts, and period illustrations. Evocative sidebars, detailed maps, and timelines add to the reference-ready quality of the text.

Pages 416

List Price: $26.40 New

Great Maps of the Civil War: Pivotal Battles and Campaigns Featuring 32 Removable Maps (Museum in a Book, 2) (Hardcover)

by William J. Miller

Most people interested in the Civil War are fascinated by maps - for what they tell about the battles, for what they tell about the terrain, and in some cases for their artistic beauty. But maps reproduced in books have limitations and there is not a good way of preserving a map collection - until now. Fifteen chapters in Great Maps of the Civil War each contain two or three maps that can be pulled out of a pocket. Ten of the maps are 18" x 24"; others are smaller. In addition to a discussion of the battles and the roles of the maps, the book tells about Civil War mapmakers and the methods they used.

Pages 48

List Price: $23.09 New

In Search of Troy : One man's quest for Homer's fabled city (Hardcover)

by Giovanni Caselli

A city rose on the banks of the Aegean 5,000 years agoTroy, the very stuff of legend; in this archaeo-history, Caselli targets all the most exciting material. Using a format that features clusters of text and images, often encircling a larger commanding image set on a two-page spread, Caselli sketches the background of Troy by following the work of Heinrich Schliemann, the archaeologist whose team unearthed the city. When the story gets to Priam's Troy, greater detail is added, giving readers a taste of what it was like to live within the city walls and towers, as a commoner or as a king.

Ages 9-12

Pages 48

List Price: $10.58 Used

Tales from the Odyssey: The Final Battle - Book #6 (Tales from the Odyssey) (Paperback)

After struggling against the gods and his fate for more than twenty years, Odysseus has returned to Ithaca at last. But things have changed: what used to be his island has been overrun by suitors who clamor for his wife's hand in marriage and plague his son, Telemachus. With the help of the gray-eyed goddess, Athena, Odysseus and Telemachus set out to regain control of Ithaca. In the last book of the series based on episodes from Homer's Odyssey, Mary Pope Osborne brings one of the greatest adventures of all time to a dramatic climax.

Ages 9-12

Pages 112

List Price: $4.99 Used

The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors (Puffin Classics) (Paperback)

by Roger Lancelyn Green (Author), Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)

To the ancient Greeks the Siege of Troy was the greatest and most important event in the Age of the Heroes-that age of wonder when the Immortals who dwelt on Olympus and whom they worshipped as gods, mingles with mankind and took a visible part in their affairs.

Ages Young Adult

Pages 224

List Price: $4.99 New

The Ancient Greece of Odysseus (The Ancient World) (Paperback)

by Peter Connolly

A marvellous, superbly illustrated retelling of two great epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, following the fortunes of Odysseus, the craftiest of the Greek commanders. Interspersed with the story are pages of fascinating information about the true history of Troy, illustrated with photographs, maps, and Peter Connolly's unequalled reconstructions. Together, the two parts add up to more than the whole, and bring Homer's epics triumphantly to life. First published as The Legend of Odysseus, this book, which won the T.E.S. Information Book Award, is now reissued with a new title.

Ages Young Adult

Pages 80

List Price: $11.66 New

Troy C. 1700-1250 BC (Fortress, 17) (Paperback)

by Nic Fields (Author), Donato Spedaliere (Illustrator)

Hisarlik is a small place, a sandy stone strewn hillock cut up into gullies and hummocks. Yet its historical significance is immense, for this is the site of Troy - the legendary city whose story sprawls across cultures, time and geography. The tale of the siege of Troy is the greatest secular story ever told, and has captured the imagination of the Western World for some 3,000 years. Although there are many difficulties in using Greek myths, oral traditions and the Homeric epics to reconstruct the Trojan War, this title uses the latest archaeological evidence to reconstruct in detail the fortifications of Troy as well as making more general observations about the possible historical events behind the epics of Homer.

Pages 64

List Price: $13.22 New

The Attack on Troy (Hardcover)

by Rodney Castleden (Author)

3300 years ago Agamemnon, king of Mycenae in Greece, attacked the city of Troy in western Anatolia. The bloody siege that followed gave rise to one of the most famous legends of the ancient world, and the search for the truth behind the legend has intrigued scholars ever since. In this fascinating new investigation Rodney Castleden reconsiders all the evidence in order to establish the facts and give a historical basis to the most potent myth of ancient warfare.

Pages 224

List Price: $30.39 New

The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon (Student Notebooks) (Paperback)

by Robert Emmet Meagher

Helen’s face launched a thousand ships, to say nothing of countless books, dramas, poems, paintings, and operas. She is arguably the most notorious woman in Western culture. What makes her so engaging, so consequential? Like an ancient wall layered with millennia of graffiti, Helen preserves the human record. Her story and our story are not to be plied apart. She is woman as we have idealized, worshipped, slandered, celebrated, constructed and deconstructed her. Helen, for better or for worse, in all her metamorphoses, represents the complex, intact fossil record of woman in Western culture. The story of Helen is the story of woman.

Pages 191

List Price: $29.00 New

The Memoirs of Helen of Troy: A Novel (Paperback)

by Amanda Elyot

"Men do not go to war over an abducted woman," states Theseus, king of Athens, after kidnapping young Helen of Sparta. His words are both prophetic and true. Helen, in middle age, writes her autobiography for her daughter, Hermione, revealing how she became the notorious Helen of Troy.

Pages 319

List Price: $11.86 New

The Forgotten Heroes: The Story Of The Buffalo Soldiers (Paperback)

by Clinton Cox

In this well-researched, revealing book, journalist Cox ( Undying Glory ) tells the story of the all-black units of the 9th and 10th Cavalry, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers. The book focuses on the years between 1866 and 1891, when the Buffalo Soldiers rode hundreds of thousands of miles on the western frontier, mapping uncharted territory and laying the groundwork for the creation of eight states. They achieved these goals despite consistently being treated as inferiors, receiving the poorest horses and equipment, and being assigned tasks considered too dangerous for white soldiers. Of equal interest is the role the Buffalo Soldiers played in removing Native Americans from their homelands; the author effectively argues that the American government--George Armstrong Custer and Theodore Roosevelt in particular--used one oppressed group to systematically destroy another in order to win land for white settlers under the guise of patriotism.

Ages 8-14

Pages 180

List Price: $4.99 New

500 Nations (Pimlico Wild West) (Paperback)

by Alvin M. Josephy

The companion volume to the 1995 popular PBS series of the same name, 500 Nations is a richly illustrated, absorbingly written history of North America's indigenous peoples. Drawing on creation stories, oral history, archaeological evidence, federal documents, and hundreds of published sources, Josephy takes us on an encyclopedic journey through Native America's past and present.

Pages 496

List Price: $40 New

How Would You Survive in the American West? (How Would You Survive) (Paperback)

by Jacqueline Morley (Author), David Salariya (Author), David Dalsriya (Creator), David Antram (Illustrator)

THIS BOOK takes you on a journey across two-thirds of the vast continent of North America, a distance of over 2,000 miles (3,220 km).

Ages 9-12

Pages 48

List Price: $7.95 New

Children of the Wild West (Paperback)

by Russell Freedman (Author)

Accompanied by evocative photographs, Newbery Medalist Freedman offers a stirring look at life on the Western frontier in these lengthy, informative accounts.

Ages 8-12

Pages 112

List Price: $9.95 New

Everyday Life in the Wild West (Paperback)

by Candy Moulton

Everyday Life in the Wild West shows you firsthand what it was like to tame the praries, fight the battles and build the boomtowns. From the vittles people ate (including boudins and buffalo humps) to what they wore (such as linsey-woolsey, caliso and duck), this book is packed with historical accounts, maps and photographs to give you a complete perspective of this fascinating era.

Pages 340

List Price: $17.10 New