ISBN: 0252022734 9780252022739

Category: History / General

Page count: 407

With the assistance of several<br> scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time<br> specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eicher has selected<br> for inclusion in <i>The Civil War in Books</i> the 1,100 most important<br> books on the war. These are organized into categories as wide-ranging<br> as "Battles and Campaigns," "Biographies, Memoirs, and<br> Letters," "Unit Histories," and "General Works."<br> The last of these includes volumes on black Americans and the war, battlefields, <br> fiction, pictorial works, politics, prisons, railroads, and a host of<br> other topics.<br> Annotations are included for<br> all entries in the work, which is presented in an oversized 8 1/2 x 11<br> inch volume in two-column format. Appendixes list "prolific"<br> Civil War publishers and other Civil War bibliographies, and the works<br> included in Eicher's mammoth undertaking are indexed by author or editor<br> and by title.<br> Gary Gallagher's foreword<br> traces the development of Civil War bibliographies and declares that Eicher's<br> annotation exceeds that of any previous comprehensive volume. <i>The Civil </i><br><i> War in Books, </i> Gallagher believes, is "precisely the type of guide"<br> that has been needed.<br> The first full-scale, fully-annotated<br> bibliography on the Civil War to appear in more than thirty years, Eicher's<br> <i>The Civil War in Books</i> is a remarkable compendium of the best reading<br> available about the worst conflict ever to strike the United States.<br> The bibliography, the most<br> valuable reference book on the subject since <i>The Civil War Day by Day, </i><br> will be essential for college and university libraries, dealers in rare<br> and secondhand books, and Civil War buffs.<br>