Books have you reread?

[samgrant]

I was about to post this a few hours ago, but the morons resurfacing the street out front apparently chopped the cable for TV and internet. Well, as the White Sox are on, I imagine they got lots of complaints and did a better than usual job of getting us all up and working again.

(If you think there is tendancy toward acrimony between the North and the South about that unfortunate war, you might find out about the even greater antagonism, again North vs. South, involving Chicago's baseball teams!)

I hope Amy will not quash this as 'flaming' or whatever, since it's strictly a local matter, but I must prepare myself for retaliation when I say "Go Angels!"

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Sorry, carried away, this was about books. The topic should be:

What one (okay, maybe two, if you can't help yourselves) Civil War/WBTS related book have you enjoyed, valued, whatever; so much that you have read it more than once, or more?

List the name of the book, number of times read, and why you can't help going back to it.

And please, anyone considering by responding with Gone With the Wind, please hold your peace!

 

[ole]

Sorry, Sam, can't help you there.

Have too many books I haven't read to take the time to reread. Will re-read chapters or look for specific information, but I've never found a book I loved so much that I was compelled to re-read it.
Ole

 

[lrd89]

Landscape Turned Red by Stephen Sears and A Stillness At Appomattox by Bruce Catton are the first books I read on the Civil War. They were the books that got me hooked. I really enjoy both books.

As for computer issues, I started a new job last week in tech support. I'm in training now on DSL.

:hatecompu I think this is the appropriate emoticon:laugh2:


By the way is Gordon Rhea working on another volume in his series on the Overland Campaign?
Roger

 

[johan_steele]

Civil War Guns by Edwards... I've read it cover to cover perhaps a half dozen times and referenced it in the hundreds.

Hardtack and Coffee by Billings... several times cover to cover.

Of coarse all three of Troiani's works have been read & referenced so many times...

On further thought I reference most titles i own several times but I don't always read them cover to cover again.

 

[Calicoboy]

Too good for just once

"Battle Cry of Freedom" by James McPherson..at least four times
"This Hallowed Ground" by Bruce Catton...at least twice
"The Dahlgreen Affair" by Duane Schultz...twice
"The Iron Brigade" by Alan Nolan...three or four times; and I'll pick it up and start at random places
"The Men Stood Like Iron" by Lance Herdergen...lost track, probably four times"
"A Brotherhood of Valor" by Jeffery Wert...twice
"Rock of Chickamauga" by Freeman Cleaves..at least twice
"The Passing of The Armies" by Joshua Chamberlain....several times
I could go on; this is a fair sample

Calicoboy

 

[matthew mckeon]

Killer Angels: In fact just finished it yesterday.

The Battle Cry of Freedom, very good on the ante bellum period.

I shouldn't reread this stuff, when there is so much I haven't read yet. Oh well.

 

[blue_zouave]

"And please, anyone considering by responding with Gone With the Wind, please hold your peace!"

Aw shucks... wellll, will you accept "Mandingo?"

I haven't had time to go back through my books. Hoping, though, that when I get the novel published, you all will read it several times, and buy copies for multiple relatives and friends.

Zou

 

[samgrant]

Mandingo? I don't think so. But just for the record, how many times have you read it?

 

[blue_zouave]

Mandingo? I don't think so. But just for the record, how many times have you read it?

Once, back in my young and foolish days, before I saw the TRUE LIGHT of the study of Civil War history!

Zou

 

[rebelchick]

The Killer Angels----I think I've read this at least 3 times.