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Title details for With My Face to the Enemy by Eric Conger - Available

With My Face to the Enemy

A Civil War Anthology

by Eric Conger
Robert Cowley
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A collection of powerful, insightful essays about the Civil War by some of the most renowned historians in their field.

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  • Release date

    March 6, 2001

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      • ISBN: 9781598873016
      • File size: 137006 KB
      • Duration: 04:45:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Comprising only a fraction of the print edition's 35 essays, these six unabridged essays present the listener with a sample of contemporary scholarship on the War Between the States. Subdued and undramatic, the well-written and interesting essays cover such topics as "The Rock of Chickamauga"--Major-General George H. Thomas, Southern strategy, and the amazing story of the Confederate raider C.S.S. Shenandoah. Eric Conger's mellow voice is a nice complement to these essays. His pace is deliberate, his delivery clear and dispassionate. Quotations are read with accents that in no way distract from a good performance. M.T.F. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 1, 2001
      "I've always disliked the dismissive term `Civil War buff,' which seems unfairly to separate the historian from the enthusiast," writes Robert Cowley, What If? editor and founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War aims to keep the two firmly together, with its 34 substantive, jargon-free essays. Leading scholars like David Herbert Donald (on Lincoln's early presidency) and Gary W. Gallagher (on Robert E. Lee's early career) check in, as does Tom Wicker (on the Battle of Stones River). In all, 30-plus essays take readers from "First Shots" to "The Last Act."

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