This award-winning Civil War history examines Robert E. Lee's retreat from Gettysburg and the vital importance of Civil War military intelligence.While countless books have examined the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army's retreat to the Potomac River remains largely untold. This comprehensive study tells the full story, including how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac to pursue Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of ...

"A fascinating book, and the most detailed account you will find about intelligence operations during the Gettysburg campaign." —Dr. Vince Houghton, Historian/Curator, International Spy Museum, Washington, DCAs intelligence experts have long asserted, "Information in regard to the enemy is the indispensable basis of all military plans." Despite the thousands of books and articles written about Gettysburg, Tom Ryan's groundbreaking Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in ...

As societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants: Seen but Not Heard addresses this lapse by presenting analyses of child refugees and migrants. This comprehensive overview considers the challenges facing young migrants and refugees through richly varied academic perspec...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Sigurd, a young Teawright from the tiny town of Meadow, is more comfortable with kettles and leaves than with armies and omens. Yet when he slips beneath the forest’s watching boughs in search of a rare herb, he comes back with more than he bargained for—a brush with something ancient that will not quite let him go.Strange visions begin to haunt his sleep. Whispers follow him from market stall to city gate. Soon a quiet boy who ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Sigurd, a young Teawright from the tiny town of Meadow, is more comfortable with kettles and leaves than with armies and omens. Yet when he slips beneath the forest’s watching boughs in search of a rare herb, he comes back with more than he bargained for—a brush with something ancient that will not quite let him go.Strange visions begin to haunt his sleep. Whispers follow him from market stall to city gate. Soon a quiet boy who ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Sigurd, a young Teawright from the tiny town of Meadow, is more comfortable with kettles and leaves than with armies and omens. Yet when he slips beneath the forest’s watching boughs in search of a rare herb, he comes back with more than he bargained for—a brush with something ancient that will not quite let him go.Strange visions begin to haunt his sleep. Whispers follow him from market stall to city gate. Soon a quiet boy who ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Sigurd, a young Teawright from the tiny town of Meadow, is more comfortable with kettles and leaves than with armies and omens. Yet when he slips beneath the forest’s watching boughs in search of a rare herb, he comes back with more than he bargained for—a brush with something ancient that will not quite let him go.Strange visions begin to haunt his sleep. Whispers follow him from market stall to city gate. Soon a quiet boy who ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Sigurd, a young Teawright from the tiny town of Meadow, is more comfortable with kettles and leaves than with armies and omens. Yet when he slips beneath the forest’s watching boughs in search of a rare herb, he comes back with more than he bargained for—a brush with something ancient that will not quite let him go.Strange visions begin to haunt his sleep. Whispers follow him from market stall to city gate. Soon a quiet boy who ...

"Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863 focuses on the immediate aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln's mandate to bring about the "literal or substantial destruction" of Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of Northern Virginia.The eleven-day period after Gettysburg was a battle of ...

Could the South have won the Civil War?To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable?Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals in this provocative and counterintuitive new look at the Civil War. In fact, the South most definitely could have won the war, and Alexander documents exactly how a Confederate victory...

This National Bestseller is a "gripping narrative. . . . the best one-volume history of the decisive battle of the Civil War" ( New York Times Book Review ).America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and courage. From Chancellorsv...

A comprehensive collection of Civil War maps and battle plans that brought Union and Confederate forces to the largest battle ever fought on American soil.Thousands of books and articles have been written about Gettysburg—but the military operation itself remains one of the most complex and difficult to understand. Here, Bradley M. Gottfried gives readers a unique and thorough study of the campaign that decided the fate of a nation.Enriched with 144 detaile...