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8 reviews
Mary Chesnut

Yale University Press, 1993

Immerse Yourself In Chesnut's Suffering World
Mary Chesnut was a name dropper, and thank goodness, because in passing along her gossip, opinions, news, and personal undertakings, she created the most comprehensive day-to-day record of life in the Confederacy that we have. Although this is both a diary and a later refurbishment of earlier writings (to the point it almost becomes a memoir in epistolary form) Mrs. Chesnut, an aristocratic lady ...

Montcalm and Wolfe: The French and Indian War

24 reviews
Francis Parkman

Da Capo Press, 2001

Timeless Classic
History as it should be written. Francis Parkman recounts exactly what happened during the Seven Years War in America, or the French and Indian War, as most of us refer to it. He does not wallow in the whiny, hand wringing, pseudo-scholarship of today's politically correct crowd. His prose sings with a lyricism so utterly lacking in the leaden efforts of today's academic historians. If you want ...

The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle

3 reviews
C. Vann Woodward

Skyhorse Publishing, 2007

I could not put this book down
This is an amazing tale of one of the largest naval battles ever. This book is a well-documented, detailed, and superbly written account of The Battle for Leyte Gulf. World War II buffs will love it.

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

9 reviews
C. Vann Woodward

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Segregation: What It Was and What It Wasn't
C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow is not only a fine introduction to its topic -- the segregationist period in the South -- but one of the most significant and influential books of its time. Originally published in 1955 (by Oxford University Press), Professor Woodward's tome kicked off the Civil Rights era with a bang, debunking the ludicrous myth (and mantra among ...

The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries (A Galaxy Book)

3 reviews
Mary Boykin Chesnut

Oxford University Press, USA, 1984

America's Own Pepys
This is the one indispensible book for anyone interested in what went on in the South behind the battle lines. As Pepys gives us a living picture of the London and court of Charles II, so does M. Chesnut give us a bird's eye view of the Confederate government and the society she lived in. A wise and witty woman, Mary Chesnut spent most of the war years close to ground zero in Richmond, VA. She ...

Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel

4 reviews
C. Vann Woodward

Beehive Press, 1973

Not only a seminal scholarly work, but a literary classic
Woodward, the dean of southern historians, was the author of numerous definitive works on the south from 1865-1900, including THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW and ORIGINS OF THE NEW SOUTH. He won the Pulitzer prize for editing the diaries of Mary Chestnut, but he probably deserved it for this, his first work. Woodward was a master prose stylist, but I don't quite think he ever quite matched this ...