The Civil War: an Illustrated History-Geoffrey Ward

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991. Softcover. Book Condition: Very Good, edgewear. 426 pages, well illustrated (some in colour) , maps, pictorial wrappers, 9-1/2 by 11 inches. Large folding map loosely inserted. First Edition. Weight in excess of 1.5kg exc pkg. \n\nFrom the publisher: \""The companion volume to the PBS television series with more than 500 illustrations: rare Civil War photographs -- many never before published -- as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps reproduced in full color. It was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000places -- from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,000 men died in it. Not only the immensity of the cataclysm but the new weapons, the new standards of generalship, and the new strategies of destruction -- together with the birth of photography -- were to make the Civil War an event presentr