Tili L
I need a list of some common, non-fiction books about the Great Depression or the Civil War. You know like one you can pick up at the local bookstore or something.
Thanks.
Answer
I'm growing disappointed with Civil War books at local bookstores as it seems their getting smaller and smaller (the Civil War section of the history section, that is, though it seems the history section in general is getting smaller and smaller). But here's a list for you. Some will probably be easy to find, some you may have to special order.
I'm gonna start you off with Bruce Catton. I'd really suggest anything by him that you can get your hands on
"The Civil War"
"A Stillness at Appomattox"
"The Coming Fury"
"Terrible Swift Sword"
"Never Call Retreat"
Ok, now I'm gonna turn you over to the publisher Stackpole Books. They done reproductions of Civil War Union army manuals. If you're a re-enactor they would probably come in handy. And if you're not a re-enactor they make good study material as you get to see what the rules, regulations, tactics, etc. were for the Union army. Where applicable I'll give the author's rank at the time the manual was originally published.
"The 1863 U.S. Infantry Tactics" U.S. War Department
"Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry 1862" by Daniel Butterfield, Brigadier General Volunteers, U.S.A
"The 1862 Army Officer's Pocket Companion" by William P. Craighill, 1st Lieutenant U.S. Corps of Engineers, Assistant Professor of Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy
"The 1862 U.S. Cavalry Tactics" by Philip St. Geo. Cooke, Brigadier General U.S. Army
"The 1863 Laws of War" U.S. War Department
"The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics" U.S. War Department
"The 1865 Customs of Service for Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers" by August V. Kautz, Captain 6th U.S. Cavalry, Brigadier General U.S. Volunteers
I'll now finish off just listing a decent selcetion to look for.
"Rebels & Yankees: The Battlefields of the Civil War" by William C. Davis
"Rebels & Yankees: The Commanders of the Civil War" by William C. Davis
"Rebels & Yankees: The Fighting Men of the Civil War" by William C. Davis
"Civil War Schemes and Plots" by Webb Garrison
"True Tales of the Civil War" by Webb Garrison
"My Brother's Keeper: Union and Confederate Soldiers' Acts of Mercy During the Civil War" by Daniel N. Rolph
"God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story" by James McIvor
"Rebel Cornbread and Yankee Coffee: Authentic Civil War Cooking and Comaraderie" by Garry Fisher
"Submarine Warfare in the Civil War" by Mark K. Ragan
"Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw" edited by Russell Duncan
"More Strange Tales of the Civil War" by Michael Sanders
"Like Men of War: Black Troop in the Civil War 1862-1865" by Noah Andre Trudeau
"Ghost and Haunts of the Civil War: Authentic Accounts of the Strange and Unxplained" by Christopher K. Coleman
"Secret Mission of the Civil War" by Philip Van Doren Stern
"The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts" by Burke Davis
"Great Battles of the Civil War" by Martin Graham and George Skoch
"Civil War Ghost Stories & Legends" by Nancy Roberts
"The Civil War Archive: The History of the Civil War in Documents" edited by Henry Steele Commager
"War is All Hell: A Collection of Civil War Quotations" by Randal Bedwell
"Civil War Blunders" by Clint Johnson
"Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War" by Jack D. Coombe
"Portraits of the Civil War: In Photographs, Diaries, and Letters" by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod
"Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History" edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
"The Complete Civil War" by Philip Katcher
"The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" edited by Margaret E. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkleman
I'm growing disappointed with Civil War books at local bookstores as it seems their getting smaller and smaller (the Civil War section of the history section, that is, though it seems the history section in general is getting smaller and smaller). But here's a list for you. Some will probably be easy to find, some you may have to special order.
I'm gonna start you off with Bruce Catton. I'd really suggest anything by him that you can get your hands on
"The Civil War"
"A Stillness at Appomattox"
"The Coming Fury"
"Terrible Swift Sword"
"Never Call Retreat"
Ok, now I'm gonna turn you over to the publisher Stackpole Books. They done reproductions of Civil War Union army manuals. If you're a re-enactor they would probably come in handy. And if you're not a re-enactor they make good study material as you get to see what the rules, regulations, tactics, etc. were for the Union army. Where applicable I'll give the author's rank at the time the manual was originally published.
"The 1863 U.S. Infantry Tactics" U.S. War Department
"Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry 1862" by Daniel Butterfield, Brigadier General Volunteers, U.S.A
"The 1862 Army Officer's Pocket Companion" by William P. Craighill, 1st Lieutenant U.S. Corps of Engineers, Assistant Professor of Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy
"The 1862 U.S. Cavalry Tactics" by Philip St. Geo. Cooke, Brigadier General U.S. Army
"The 1863 Laws of War" U.S. War Department
"The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics" U.S. War Department
"The 1865 Customs of Service for Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers" by August V. Kautz, Captain 6th U.S. Cavalry, Brigadier General U.S. Volunteers
I'll now finish off just listing a decent selcetion to look for.
"Rebels & Yankees: The Battlefields of the Civil War" by William C. Davis
"Rebels & Yankees: The Commanders of the Civil War" by William C. Davis
"Rebels & Yankees: The Fighting Men of the Civil War" by William C. Davis
"Civil War Schemes and Plots" by Webb Garrison
"True Tales of the Civil War" by Webb Garrison
"My Brother's Keeper: Union and Confederate Soldiers' Acts of Mercy During the Civil War" by Daniel N. Rolph
"God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story" by James McIvor
"Rebel Cornbread and Yankee Coffee: Authentic Civil War Cooking and Comaraderie" by Garry Fisher
"Submarine Warfare in the Civil War" by Mark K. Ragan
"Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw" edited by Russell Duncan
"More Strange Tales of the Civil War" by Michael Sanders
"Like Men of War: Black Troop in the Civil War 1862-1865" by Noah Andre Trudeau
"Ghost and Haunts of the Civil War: Authentic Accounts of the Strange and Unxplained" by Christopher K. Coleman
"Secret Mission of the Civil War" by Philip Van Doren Stern
"The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts" by Burke Davis
"Great Battles of the Civil War" by Martin Graham and George Skoch
"Civil War Ghost Stories & Legends" by Nancy Roberts
"The Civil War Archive: The History of the Civil War in Documents" edited by Henry Steele Commager
"War is All Hell: A Collection of Civil War Quotations" by Randal Bedwell
"Civil War Blunders" by Clint Johnson
"Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War" by Jack D. Coombe
"Portraits of the Civil War: In Photographs, Diaries, and Letters" by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod
"Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History" edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
"The Complete Civil War" by Philip Katcher
"The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" edited by Margaret E. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkleman
Is it true many people consider Leo Tolstoy the greatest author of all time?
Hunter X H
War and Peace & Anna Karenia i heard are two best books ever written...
@Gerry: interesting point. For the sake of the question, what do you personally believe is the best author and his best work?
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I for one consider Tolstoy to be a "great" author but by far not certainly the "best". Over the many centuries of works and classics (Iliad, Odyssey come to mind as well) I think it rather difficult to consider any "one" author the "best".
I read "War and Peace" two years ago (took me 65 days to get through all 18 books inside) and I admit there were many points of brilliance in the writing to where I felt I was "there" by the literary descriptions that Tolstoy provided. The ball room scenes were a little difficult for me to get through (I only wanted to read about the war matters...LOL) but again, I felt as though I was "there".
This being said, and as a guy who enjoys big books and History I was disappointed, disappointed, disappointed that Tolstoy had left out the Treaty of Tilsit. This treaty he leaves out is the treaty that was broken by the Russians that led Napoleon into Russia and into Moscow in particular. By leaving this out he was able to provide a direction on the story and account in a manner that wasn't completely accurate in my view; however, it was an amazing read and I felt better for having read every single page of it.
The one thing I believed that Tolstoy was excellent at within the work of "War and Peace" was the foreshadow he gave to the future of war and the reporting of the guerilla tactics - that last few chapters had me captivated even moreso than many other aspects of the book. I don't plan to read Anna Karenina anytime soon but will make it a point one day to do so.
"My Opinion" on Tolstoy ~ a fabulous author and historian as well as writer. "Best" cannot be made by me personally.
Edit: Hunter, getting to this follow up sort of late (I've been rather busy so I apologize in advance.) It's rather difficult for me to plainly provide "one" author as we all know there are many genres of books with exceptional to excellent authors in all categories. My personal favorite topic of History with the account of "War" makes this one topic even moreso difficult as I consider the authors and books I have yet to read and the many that I have read to this point in time. One book I am looking forward to reading is "With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza by Armand de Caulaincourt (Napoleon's Aide de Camp). The book was essentially buried and forgotten and then found in the 1970s. It surfaced during the Second World War but France was rather a busy and politically complicated nation during this time frame as we know. I feel this work for me will fill in some gaps from Tolstoy's work. There are many authors I have yet to read so I am honored you would ask this question of me.
One author that continuously stands out is Dr. Bernard B. Fall. His first work "Street Without Joy" on the French-Indochina War was remarkable; even more remarkable was his later work (published just before he stepped on an IED in the City of Hue while US Marines were clearing the city of the Vietcong) entitled "Hell In A Very Small Place: The Battle for Dien Bien Phu". The book encapsulates what the US was doing in the early 1960s in Vietnam and he also included matters on Capitol Hill and statements and records of people/high ranking officers testimony as well. By 1965 the effective method of fighting the Vietcong was lost on LBJ's war machine that moved into that nation. The author himself was an Austrian Jew who immigrated with his parents to France in 1938; his parents both worked for the resistence - his mother did as well though she was a school teacher. What happens is both his parents are caught and killed by the Nazi's. As a Teen and before the conclusion of the Second World War he himself (Bernard Fall) fights for the FFL (French Resistance). After the war and being parentless and a member of the resistance; he is afforded an education and earns a Baccalaureate degree. He then applies and is accepted to Syracuse for a PhD program in the late 1940s. In the early 1950s as the French-Indochina War is heating up he is offered a chance to go to Vietnam to report on it as a "Frenchman". Dr. Fall would until his dying day consider himself French before anything else. He understood the Vietnamese better than any Westerner. He would become a professor at Howard University in Washington DC and it was from here where his work on Vietnam continued. Later, and before he was killed, he became critical of the US Government in Vietnam (this is post 1965).
Another good book with two authors that sort of webs the above from Dr. Fall is "We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang and the Battle that changed the Vietnam War." Co-written by Joe Galloway and Hal Moore (the movie adoption staring Mel Gibson is to this day the one movie that most closely resembles the book in my view - anomalies in the movie are so slight it isn't even worth mentioning here) and captures the essence of the Vietnam War in 1965 and beyond.
Looks like I have written my own book here - you can contact me through my profile should you need or require more thoughts.
I for one consider Tolstoy to be a "great" author but by far not certainly the "best". Over the many centuries of works and classics (Iliad, Odyssey come to mind as well) I think it rather difficult to consider any "one" author the "best".
I read "War and Peace" two years ago (took me 65 days to get through all 18 books inside) and I admit there were many points of brilliance in the writing to where I felt I was "there" by the literary descriptions that Tolstoy provided. The ball room scenes were a little difficult for me to get through (I only wanted to read about the war matters...LOL) but again, I felt as though I was "there".
This being said, and as a guy who enjoys big books and History I was disappointed, disappointed, disappointed that Tolstoy had left out the Treaty of Tilsit. This treaty he leaves out is the treaty that was broken by the Russians that led Napoleon into Russia and into Moscow in particular. By leaving this out he was able to provide a direction on the story and account in a manner that wasn't completely accurate in my view; however, it was an amazing read and I felt better for having read every single page of it.
The one thing I believed that Tolstoy was excellent at within the work of "War and Peace" was the foreshadow he gave to the future of war and the reporting of the guerilla tactics - that last few chapters had me captivated even moreso than many other aspects of the book. I don't plan to read Anna Karenina anytime soon but will make it a point one day to do so.
"My Opinion" on Tolstoy ~ a fabulous author and historian as well as writer. "Best" cannot be made by me personally.
Edit: Hunter, getting to this follow up sort of late (I've been rather busy so I apologize in advance.) It's rather difficult for me to plainly provide "one" author as we all know there are many genres of books with exceptional to excellent authors in all categories. My personal favorite topic of History with the account of "War" makes this one topic even moreso difficult as I consider the authors and books I have yet to read and the many that I have read to this point in time. One book I am looking forward to reading is "With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza by Armand de Caulaincourt (Napoleon's Aide de Camp). The book was essentially buried and forgotten and then found in the 1970s. It surfaced during the Second World War but France was rather a busy and politically complicated nation during this time frame as we know. I feel this work for me will fill in some gaps from Tolstoy's work. There are many authors I have yet to read so I am honored you would ask this question of me.
One author that continuously stands out is Dr. Bernard B. Fall. His first work "Street Without Joy" on the French-Indochina War was remarkable; even more remarkable was his later work (published just before he stepped on an IED in the City of Hue while US Marines were clearing the city of the Vietcong) entitled "Hell In A Very Small Place: The Battle for Dien Bien Phu". The book encapsulates what the US was doing in the early 1960s in Vietnam and he also included matters on Capitol Hill and statements and records of people/high ranking officers testimony as well. By 1965 the effective method of fighting the Vietcong was lost on LBJ's war machine that moved into that nation. The author himself was an Austrian Jew who immigrated with his parents to France in 1938; his parents both worked for the resistence - his mother did as well though she was a school teacher. What happens is both his parents are caught and killed by the Nazi's. As a Teen and before the conclusion of the Second World War he himself (Bernard Fall) fights for the FFL (French Resistance). After the war and being parentless and a member of the resistance; he is afforded an education and earns a Baccalaureate degree. He then applies and is accepted to Syracuse for a PhD program in the late 1940s. In the early 1950s as the French-Indochina War is heating up he is offered a chance to go to Vietnam to report on it as a "Frenchman". Dr. Fall would until his dying day consider himself French before anything else. He understood the Vietnamese better than any Westerner. He would become a professor at Howard University in Washington DC and it was from here where his work on Vietnam continued. Later, and before he was killed, he became critical of the US Government in Vietnam (this is post 1965).
Another good book with two authors that sort of webs the above from Dr. Fall is "We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang and the Battle that changed the Vietnam War." Co-written by Joe Galloway and Hal Moore (the movie adoption staring Mel Gibson is to this day the one movie that most closely resembles the book in my view - anomalies in the movie are so slight it isn't even worth mentioning here) and captures the essence of the Vietnam War in 1965 and beyond.
Looks like I have written my own book here - you can contact me through my profile should you need or require more thoughts.
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