Tag: michael shaara
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Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War Bestsellers: September 2008
The past two months, July and August, I took a look at the Amazon.com top 10 Civil War bestsellers. Although I’m barely squeaking this in prior to month’s end, and despite Dimitri’s hatred of lists, I’d like to revisit this a third time and see how (if?) this list has changed in the past 45 […]
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Civil War Odds & Ends: August 27, 2008
It’s been a little while since our last Civil War Odds & Ends, and I’ve seen some pretty interesting Civil War related material on the web lately. The Tipsy Historian shows us the faces of Company I of the 57th Massachusetts, a regiment which saw itself decimated in Grant’s Overland Campaign of 1864. The 57th […]
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Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War Bestsellers: August 2008
Last month I took a look at the Amazon.com top 10 Civil War bestsellers. Now I’d like to take a look again and see how (if?) this list has changed much over time. I’ve taken the liberty of removing non-Civil War related books from the list. The books below are in the Civil War top […]
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Top 10 Amazon.com Civil War Bestsellers: July 2008
I thought it might be fun to take a monthly look at the Amazon.com top 10 Civil War bestsellers and see how (if?) this list changes much over time. The first thing I noticed was the strange inclusion of several titles which have either little or no real connection to the Civil War. I’ve taken […]
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Civil War Talk Radio: March 18, 2005
Air Date: 031805 Subject: Jeff Shaara: Generals, Gods, Angels Book: Gods and Generals & The Last Full Measure Movie: Gods and Generals Guest: Jeff Shaara Summary: From his father’s The Killer Angels to his own best-selling novels, Jeff Shaara discusses the craft of historical fiction. Brett’s Summary: Jeff Shaara discusses his father, Michael Shaara, his […]