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Title: Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0-07-231736-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 30 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $68.20 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Second to None
Comment: McPherson's work here is quite comprehensive, notwithstanding The Battle Cry of Freedom, and quite detailed which makes it exactly the right text of choice for a Civil War classroom. The maps, charts, and photographs show without crowding the material the nature of the battles and campaigns the Union and Confederacy fought against each other. The photographs include gems that drive the ravaging, taxing, bloody hell of war home to readers. One cannot help but be shocked by the photograph on page 490 or many of the others depicting the horrors of war. That is one of many reasons that make this a book worth reading. Also worth mentioning is the meticulous amount of information and the methods by which it is organized. McPherson's text is mainly digested details of the war as he rarely refers the reader to other sources. There is an excellent organization to the text that makes it second to none.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding textbook
Comment: While the general reader or Civil War buff might enjoy McPherson's popular "Battle Cry of Freedom," this book in a first rate textbook on the Civil War. McPherson spends ample time exploring the causes of war: the disputes over slavery in the territories, the attempts at compromise, and finally the start of the war itself. His military analysis of various battles is suscinct but comprehensive: satisfying to the military history buff, but not confusing to the lay reader.
Most importantly, McPherson incorporates a lengthy discussion of Reconstruction into the book (an element missing in "Battle Cry of Freedom"), thus describing the crucial aftermath of the war.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best books on the civil war that I've read.
Comment: I first became acquainted with this book twelve years ago when I was a college student taking an American Civil War course and have highly recommended it ever since. The serious history student will find the book to be very comprehensive, covering not only the war itself, but the antebellum years and the period of reconstruction as well. The social, economic, military and political causes and consequences of the war are all covered in great detail. Professor McPherson has also included many visual aids such as maps and charts which the reader will find quite instructive. Needless to say, it was, and has remained, one of my primary resources whenever I need to refresh my memory concerning just about any topic on the war. I wore out my first copy and recently was forced to replace it with a second. However, Ordeal by Fire is really a text book and subsequently not always an easy read. If you prefer your history in narrative form, I highly recommend McPherson's book Battle Cry of Freedom instead.
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Title: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0195124995 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Thomas Paterson, Michael Perman ISBN: 0395868491 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $41.96 |
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Title: Seasons of War: The Ordeal of the Confederate Community, 1861-1865 by Daniel E. Sutherland ISBN: 0807123153 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.19 |
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Title: Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams ISBN: 0756766559 Publisher: DIANE Publishing Co Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0345359429 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 21 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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