The Civil War
by Harry Hansen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good
- Seller
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Independence, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Blue cloth covers with black words on spine. Illustrated with fourteen maps.
Book condition: Very Good-. Some wear to spine edges and corners. Book has light stains on top of closed book pages and light tanning. Otherwise very clean and tight.
Dust Jacket condition: Good. Some rubbing/bumping, tears, and chips. Please see photos.
672 pages including Index.
Synopsis
Harry Hansen was born in Davenport, Iowa, and received a bachelor of philosophy degree from the University of Chicago. He served as a war correspondent for the Chicago Daily News during World War I, and was a correspondent at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Mr. Hansen served as literary editor of the Chicago Daily News, the New York World , and the New York World Telegram . He wrote eleven books as well as numerous articles and essays, and lectured at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. A member of the Society of American Historians, he was the editor of The World Almanac . Richard Wheeler , an ex-marine, is the author of sixteen other books of military history, eleven of which deal with different Civil War campaigns and battles, including Voices of the Civil War , winner of the New York City Civil War Round Table's Fletcher Pratt Award. Wheeler is also the author of Voices of 1776: The Story of the American Revolution in the Words of Those Who Were There (Meridian). He lives in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1258
- Title
- The Civil War
- Author
- Harry Hansen
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Civil War, American Civil War, history, complete history, documented, events that caused the Civil War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; History - American;
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