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Control # 1 2009019469
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20120112092856.0
Fixed Data 8 090508s2009 nyuabcf b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2009019469
ISBN 20    $a9780307263438
ISBN 20    $a0307263436
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LC Call 50 00 $aE470$b.K255 2009
Dewey Class 82 00 $a973.7/3$222
Dewey Class 82 14 $a973.7$214
ME:Pers Name 100 $aKeegan, John,$d1934-
Title 245 14 $aThe American Civil War :$ba military history /$cJohn Keegan.
Edition 250    $a1st ed.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2009.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axvi, 396 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., maps, ports. ;$c25 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 371-373) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aNorth and South divide -- Will there be a war? -- Improvised armies -- Running the war -- The military geography of the Civil War -- The life of the soldier -- Plans -- McClellan takes command -- The war in middle America -- Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West -- Chancellorsville and Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Cutting the Chattanooga-Atlanta link -- The overland campaign and the fall of Richmond -- Breaking into the South -- The battle off Cherbourg and the Civil War at sea -- Black soldiers -- The home fronts -- Walt Whitman and wounds -- Civil War generalship -- Civil War battle -- Could the South have survived? -- The end of the war.
Abstract 520    $aAnalyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMilitary geography$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
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Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCampaigns.
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Subj:Geog. 651  7 $aUnited States$xStrategic aspects.$2sears
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Elec Loc'n 856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2009019469-b.html
Elec Loc'n 856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2009019469-d.html
Elec Loc'n 856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2009019469-s.html
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