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| |  | Cooking, Food & Wine | Home » » » The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Wonderfully entertaining look at some intriguing oddities, unusual incidents, and colorful personalities connected with the Civil War. Includes 25 names the war was known by, personal quirks of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and more, | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Burke Davis | | Hardcover:
| 256 pages | | Publisher:
| Wings | | Publication Date:
| December 12, 1988 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0517371510 | | Package Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 26 reviews |
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 great civil war infoNov 07, 2009
This is an older book, but the information is spot on.
I'm glad to be able to add the book to my collection.
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The Book That Answers "What's the big deal?"Oct 27, 2009
This is the book that I give to people who ask, "What's the big deal about the Civil War?" Burke Davis serves up fascinating little sidebars to history, the colorful details, the human stories behind the big battles and the politics.
Read "The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating Facts" to learn why the Civil War still intrigues people almost 150 years later.
The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating FactsJul 05, 2009
This amusing book is full of odd tidbits about the Civil War, but really does help shed a lot of light into the details of the war most never heard of before. Each chapter is another set of facts that will amuse and lead one to realize how complex this war really was.
It is not a difficult read, and does not have to be read in any particular order. Each chapter stands alone and apart from those preceeding and following it. I notice it is no longer available in print, but used bookstores may have it, or it may be in the closeout bargain section of your local bookseller. If you can find it, buy it. It is a gem with a great deal of useful information.
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 Not bad for the priceOct 23, 2008
As an avid civil war reader I was a little disappointed at the amount of really new material. Most of the stories will be familiar to civil war buffs. I agree with the reviewer who mentioned the story of the Rains brother as a notable exception to this. That was truly a fascinating story, and one I was not aware of until I read it in this book.
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 Civil War triviaAug 18, 2008
It's okay... I think it has a lot of "filler" in it. I'd rather have a smaller book with precise information in it - stuff that you would not find in other books or you wouldn't have come up with on your on.
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