Davis, William C. - Brother against Brother (Civil War) (198

Davis, William C. - Brother against Brother

The War Begins

Alexandria, Virginia Time Life Books, June 1, 1983

Hardcover with glued on oval illustration
23,5 x 28 cm.
176 Pages

GOOD/VERY GOOD

This book is part of the Time-Life Books series covering the US Civil War. This volume covers the atmosphere of the US in the 1850s up to the changing of flags at Fort Sumner in April of 1861.

A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps. Fully researched, superbly written.

The Civil War book series chronicles in great detail the American Civil War. Published by Time Life the series was simultaneously released in the USA and Canada between 1983 and 1987, with subsequent identical reprints in the late 1980s - early 1990s following suit for foreign, though untranslated, dissemination as well. Some titles focused on a specific topic, such as the blockade, and spies, but most volumes concentrated on the battles and campaigns, presented in chronological order.
Each volume in the series was 176 pages in length, heavily illustrated and with pictorial essays on specific topics within each volume and came standard without a dust jacket. Executed in hardcover, each volume was bound in silvery-gray leatherette, the cover endowed with in deep blue printed text imprints, and heavily embossed with Civil War symbology with an oval shaped illustration glued on.
There are 28 volumes in the series. This is the first one

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