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NEVER CALL RETREAT (THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR VOLUME THREE)

by Bruce Catton

Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. 1st. 1965

Almost very good condition. This book is the final installment of Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy. It covers the period from late 1862 to the surrender of Lee's army and Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 to the end of the Confederacy in May 1865 with the surrender of the last rebel army. Green cloth spine with black titles and silver title on black, grey cloth boards with silver title to front. Maps. xi and 555 pages including index. Top edge red.

Boars grubby. Top & tail of spine lightly worn. Text block grubby. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Contents otherwise clean.

Stock no. 1831230

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Contents

  • PUBLISHER'S NOTE
  • LIST OF MAPS
  • CHAPTER ONE: In the Rapids
  • 1. Castles in the Air
  • 2. Battle without Logic
  • 3. The Politics of War
  • 4. In the Mists at Stone's River
  • 5. Paralysis of Command
  • 6. A Question of Control
  • CHAPTER TWO: Parting of the Red Sea Waves
  • 1. The Land of Cotton
  • 2. In Motion in All Directions
  • 3. The Needs of Two Armies
  • 4. A Bridge for the Moderates
  • 5. The Way of the Liberated
  • CHAPTER THREE: Remorseless Revolutionary Struggle
  • 1. Ironclads at Charleston
  • 2. Men Trained for Command
  • 3. The Darkness, and Jackson, and Fear
  • 4. Aftermath of Victgory
  • 5. Mirage on the Skyline
  • 6. Encounter at Geeysburg
  • CHAPTER FOUR: In Letters of Blood
  • 1. All or Nothing
  • 2. The Notion of Equality
  • 3. Servants of the Guns
  • 4. The Road to Zion
  • 5. A Mad Irregular Battle
  • 6. 37,000 plus one
  • CHAPTER FIVE: The Impossibilities
  • 1. The Impassable Gulf
  • 2. Eloquence at Gettysburg
  • 3. Amnesty at Suffrage
  • 4. Solitary in a Crowd
  • 5. The General and the Statesman
  • CHAPTER SIX: Act of Faith
  • 1. The Last Barrier
  • 2. Sideshows
  • 3. The Cork in the Bottle
  • 4. However Bold We Might Be
  • 5. Vested Interest in Failure
  • 6. A Grand Simplicity of Purpose
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: His Almost Chosen People
  • 1. Appeal Against the Thunderstorm
  • 2. What Have You Done?
  • 3. Too Late
  • 4. None Shall be Weary
  • 5. As in the Old Days
  • 6. To the Dark Indefinite Shore
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INDEX

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