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The Battle of Antietam reveals the war's horror like a coroner pulling back his bloody sheet for viewing. In it, the soldiers realize how much killing and dying it is going to take to see the war through to the end and just what their odds are of surviving it.

Publisher: Lucent Books; (August 1996)
ISBN: 1560064544

Life in the South During the Civil War delves into the scourge of war that passed through Southern fields, hills, and homes caused by the depredations of the foraging and battling enemy armies. Years would grind by before hope would again fill the dull, aching chasm where their dreams of an independent future had once lived.

Publisher: Lucent Books; (December 1997)
ASIN: 1560063335

The Rebuilding of Bosnia explores the recent conflict between religions and ethnic groups within the former Yugoslavia. In the final analysis, it remains up to the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, who have heard their children cry and vengefully buried thousands of their dead, to choose their ultimate fate.

Publisher: Lucent Books; (June 1997)
ISBN: 1560061901

Life Among the Indian Fighters reveals the complex and contradictory nature of those who initially did battle with the Native Americans. These rugged and resourceful white men possessed equal parts of love and hate, gentleness and ferocity, sensitivity and hard-hearted callousness. For better or for worse, they led America into the future.

Publisher: Lucent Books; (January 1998)
ISBN: 1560063491

Civil War Generals of the Confederacy includes five brief but telling biographies of the most notable commanders of the Southern armies during the war: Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, James "Pete" Longstreet, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. The stories trace their lives from childhood through until their deaths and the impact each had on the campaigns in which he was involved.

Publisher: Lucent Books; (January 1999)
ISBN: 1560063599

Baptism at Bull Run vivid portrait
of the agony and glory of war

In graphic and action-packed detail, author James Reger offers a realistic, almost three-dimensional portrayal of what the battle was really like-from the moment the starry-eyed boys in blue and gray arrived along the steamy tangles of Bull Run Creek to their final moments of agonizing glory as they charged, fought and died among the shell-blasted hillsides.

From the smoky battlefields to the smoke-filled political chambers in Washington and Richmond, Reger reveals a set of realities rarely discussed in history classes-President Lincoln surrounded by lazy
commanders and corrupt cabinet members, President Davis struggling
to cope with incompetent and cantankerous commanders.

Combining a masterful knowledge of history with penetrating sights, sounds and smells of battle, Reger brilliantly resurrects the naive dreams of glory and horrific realities that that drove ordinary farmboys and their
aristocratic commanders forward to
face their final destiny.

In these pages the reader comes face-to-face with many legends in blue and gray-P.G.T. Beauregard, the ambitious and arrogant Confederate general at Fort Sumter; Thomas J. Jackson, an ungainly, eccentric descendant of mountaineers who will eventually become the Confederacy's "savior in
the saddle;" William T. Sherman, nervous and brittle, the sole voice of reason in the Union ranks who would
go on to become the most hated man
in Dixie; and James Longstreet who wrangles with over-zealous and jealous fellow commanders in the field.

This refreshing and riveting account of the first major clash during the Civil
War is destined to become a classic, in the tradition of Black Flower, Gods and Generals and Killer Angels.

"Baptism at Bull Run has reinvigorated my interest in Civil War fiction," writes William D. Paterson Jr., a great-grandson of General James Longstreet, one of the many military generals featured in the book. "It tells the story in graphic detail of the first major land confrontation of America's Civil War. Starting with the much overlooked opening action at Blackburn's Ford and concluding with a conversation between President Lincoln and a Federal recruit, Mr. Reger has covered all the bases,
the confusion, lack of leadership and preparation, the political intrigue, military blunders - as well as the reality of Civil War combat."

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