Douglas Southall Freeman's Books
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Lees Lieutenants 3 Volume AbridgedA towering landmark in Civil War literature, long considered one of the great masterpieces of military history -- now available in a one-volume...Read More -
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Lees Lieutenants Volume 3An unquestioned masterpiece of the historian's art, and a towering landmark in the literature of the American Civil War.In Gettysburg to Appomattox,...Read More
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Lee's Lieutenants Third Volume AbridgedLee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a...Read More
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Lee's LieutenantsLee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a...Read More
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Cody Enterprise, November 7, 2012
...and to each other. It is our American apotheosis as well as our antidote to despair and discouragement. “Douglas Southall Freeman, one of America’s great historians, wrote two definitive biographies, one of George Washington and one of Robert E....
Coleraine Times, August 19, 2012
...they fade from public view. A bad book is robbery of time. The great American historian and biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, wrote, “Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.” Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of the great poet, once confided to...
New York Times, June 29, 2012
...that reason it has been taken away.” Follow Disunion at twitter.com/NYTcivilwar or join us on Facebook. Sources: Douglas Southall Freeman, “R. E. Lee: A Biography,” Vol. 2; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the...
New York Times, June 29, 2012
...that reason it has been taken away.” Follow Disunion at twitter.com/NYTcivilwar or join us on Facebook. Sources: Douglas Southall Freeman, “R. E. Lee: A Biography,” Vol. 2; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the...
AL.com, June 17, 2012
...s collection of essays "Still Rebels, Still Yankees" (1957), Ernst Mayr’s "The Growth of Biological Thought" (1985), Douglas Southall Freeman’s monumental three-volume "Lee’s Lieutenants" (1942-44), William L. Shirer’s "The Rise and Fall of the...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 3, 2012
...Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' and the just-published sequel, 'Bring Up the Bodies.' And I want to read Douglas Southall Freeman's massive three-volume work from the 1940s, 'Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command,' the big Southern version of the Civil War I...
Cutting Edge News, January 17, 2013
...in shaping perceptions of the war, in the North as well as in the South. The works of Douglas Southall Freeman, Virginian and biographer of Robert E. Lee, represent the epitome of the Lost Cause school; but even writers like Bruce Catton, who interpreted...
The Tribune Papers, January 16, 2013
...high standards, but his style was not to push, drive, or threaten. According to his most celebrated biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, “He carried them [the cadets] on his heart, and spent many an anxious hour debating how he could best train them...
Weekly Standard, December 22, 2012
...in shaping perceptions of the war, in the North as well as in the South. The works of Douglas Southall Freeman, Virginian and biographer of Robert E. Lee, represent the epitome of the Lost Cause school; but even writers like Bruce Catton, who interpreted...
Civil War Trust, November 16, 2012
...the 1920s by a group of dedicated Richmond residents — including legendary historian and Richmond News Leader editor Douglas Southall Freeman — calling themselves the Richmond Battlefield Park Corporation, who purchased 60 acres south of...
Washington Post, November 13, 2012
...hand. More followed on elegant Monument Avenue. History, of course, had to be reshaped. Newspaper editor and writer Douglas Southall Freeman started writing laudatory histories of Lee and his lieutenants. Some local families actually refused to...
Washington Post, November 13, 2012
...hand. More followed on elegant Monument Avenue. History, of course, had to be reshaped. Newspaper editor and writer Douglas Southall Freeman started writing laudatory histories of Lee and his lieutenants. Some local families actually refused to...
Cody Enterprise, November 7, 2012
...and to each other. It is our American apotheosis as well as our antidote to despair and discouragement. “Douglas Southall Freeman, one of America’s great historians, wrote two definitive biographies, one of George Washington and one of Robert E....
