In contrast to Roland, Smith devotes much more space to Johnston’s Civil War service. Smith draws his title from Johnston’s comment at the start of the Battle Shiloh, that he must “roll the iron dice ...

Glymph scoured archives across the nation to ferret out heretofore unknown or little-used resources to tell the story of women in the Civil War, as can be seen in the numerous primary and secondary ...

While wandering the grounds of the Third Battle of Winchester in the spring of 2023, Chris Bohjalian peered over a still ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in "Free State of ...

Ulysses S Grant was the biggest hero of the Civil ... in battle or suffered physical and mental wounds that they would carry for the rest of their lives. If the greatest horrors of the war ...

did—these are five of the best books published about the second world war this century. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45. By Max Hastings. Knopf; 672 pages; $22. Pan Macmillan ...