Praeger Military History Illustrated My local Half Price Books stores have Praeger Military History Illustrated books for $5.98 each. At that price, I picked up all the Civil War volumes I could find there. Everything from Fair Oaks to Hampton Roads to Chickamauga. I ended up with 10 volumes in all.
Kind of simplistic, yes, but I have gleaned some interesting stuff from them so far and at that price, I couldn't beat it.
I just wish I had the money to buy all the other ones they had there (everything from series on ancient battles to the American Revolution).
__________________ "There must be more historians of the Civil War than there were generals figthing in it... Of the two groups, the historians are the more belligerent." David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered (1961) |