While the series was being released for the first time, the publisher had enabled its subscribers to separately order in gold imprinted hardboard slipcases, executed in blue and able to hold three volumes.

Still, interested parties in other language territories were offered the opportunity to acquire the original American version via mail through their nearest Time Life Books subsidiary, as was commonplace for the company at the time, typically by taking out a series subscription.

The Assassination - Death of the Presidentīecause of it being a USA-specific topic, no international editions of the main series and/or the hereafter mentioned spin-offs are known to have been published by either Time Life itself or licensed others. The Shenandoah in Flames - The Valley Campaign of 1864 War on the Frontier - The Trans-Mississippi West The Killing Ground - Wilderness to Cold Harborĭeath in the Trenches - Grant at Petersburg Spies, Scouts and Raiders - Irregular Operations The Fight For Chattanooga - Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge

The Struggle for Tennessee - Tupelo to Stones River Twenty Million Yankees - The Northern Home Front Rebels Resurgent - Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville War on the Mississippi - Grant's Vicksburg Campaign The Bloodiest Day - The Battle of Antietam The Coastal War - Chesapeake Bay to Rio Grande Frassatino, Les Jenson, Michael McAffee, James P. Lee Takes Command - From Seven Days to Second Bull Run The Road to Shiloh - Early Battles in the Westįorward to Richmond - McClellan's Peninsular Campaignĭecoying the Yanks - Jackson's Valley CampaignĬonfederate Ordeal - The Southern Home Front Frassatino, Les Jenson, Michael McAffee, Clark G. Executed in hardcover, each volume was bound in silvery-gray padded faux leather, the cover endowed with in deep blue printed text imprints, and heavily embossed with Civil War symbology with an oval shaped illustration glued on. Some titles focused on a specific topic, such as the blockade, and spies, but most volumes concentrated on the battles and campaigns, presented in chronological order.Įach volume in the series was 176 pages in length, heavily illustrated and with pictorial essays on specific topics within each volume and came standard without a dust jacket.

Published by Time Life the series was simultaneously released in the US and Canada between 19, with subsequent identical reprints in the late 1980s - early 1990s following suit for foreign, though untranslated, dissemination as well. The Civil War book series ( OCLC 20080930) chronicles in great detail the American Civil War.

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