Kagan, Neil

Photographs, maps, and text profile the major battles of the Civil War, providing information on key military strategies, soldiers, generals, and weapons.

Contains illustrated time lines that chronicle the history of the world from prehistory to the early twenty-first century, grouped in eight eras, each with an introduction, maps, sidebars, illustrations, and topical essays.

A selection of personal accounts and photographs from World War II.

Addresses every military, political, and social aspect of the Civil War including campaigns and battles, strategies and tactics of Union and Confederate generals, and the everyday lives of soldiers through eyewitness accounts, vintage photographs, artifacts, and illustrations.

Charts the ebb and flow of the war between the North and the South with 110 maps, both vintage battle maps and vivid recreations, and includes over 320 documentary photos, battlefield sketches, paintings, and artifacts that bear eyewitness testimony to the Civil War.