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Review: Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War

June 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War By David J. Eicher Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Little, Brown; 1st edition (March 22, 2006) ISBN: 0316739057 David Eicher has a difficult premise to prove but makes a good logical case for it.  The short form is that the Southern mentality contained the seeds of […]

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Book Controversy

September 4th, 2006 · No Comments

It begins like this: Gettysburg Battlefield: The Definitive Illustrated History, by David J. Eicher (Chronicle Books, 2003), with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. James M. McPherson, is a 296-page, coffee table-sized book that was billed as “the ultimate pictorial Civil War record.”Instead, Eicher’s book became hopelessly mired in a photo-piracy scandal that eventually […]

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