An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government [VINTAGE 2001] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Harcourt, Inc., New York, 2001

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Fine unread condition brown boards, ruby red spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by William C. Davis; Preliminary Page Quotes by Jefferson Davis and John C. Breckinridge; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ends and Beginnings; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. "By February 1865, the end was cearly in sight for the Confederate gvernment. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of its army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender fof the South and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled to achieve their own differeing visions: Jefferson Davis, autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost, ahd his secretary of war, General John C. Breckinridge, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered remnants of the land he so loved. Pulitzer Prize-nominee William C. Davis traces the astounding journey of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet, as they fled Richmond by train, then by mule, then on foot. Using original research, he narrates, with dramatic style and clear historical accuracy, the futile quarrels of the two men as they continued their flight from their eventual fate. The result is a rich canvas of a time of despair and defeat, a charged tale full of physical adventure and battle that sweeps from the marble halls of Virginia to a dingy room in a Havana hotel." - from the inner front jacket flap.…

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Titel
An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government [VINTAGE 2001] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Autor
Davis, William C.
Verlag
Harcourt, Inc., New York
Erscheinungsjahr
2001
Zustand
Fine
Schutzumschlag
Fine
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
Illustrator
Andrews, Vaughn (jacket design); Smith, G.B.D. (book design)
Abmessungen
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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