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The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga
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The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga Paperback - 1996

by Peter Cozzens

Civil War enthusiasts will welcome a new book by Peter Cozzens, author of two highly praised works on Civil War campaigns--No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. In The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens fully chronicles one of the South's most humiliating defeats.


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Selected by Civil War Magazine as one of the essential titles on military campaigns and personalities. A Main Selection of the History Book Club.

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  • Title The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga
  • Author Peter Cozzens
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 536
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date November 1, 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780252065958 / 0252065956
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 6 x 1.23 in (22.73 x 15.24 x 3.12 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Tennessee
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.7

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Peter Cozzens, a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State, is the author of No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River, a selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club, and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga, the main selection of the History Book Club.
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Civil War enthusiasts will welcome this concluding volume of Peter Cozzens' highly praised trilogy on the Civil War in the West. The battle around Chattanooga in the late fall of 1863 were among the most decisive of the Civil War, opening the Deep South to the Union and setting the stage for the Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea. After Chattanooga, the principal Confederate army in the West fought without spirit or hope of victory. Cozzens' comprehensive account details movements of individual regiments, even as it reveals the larger impact of the campaign on the outcome of the war. In "The Shipwreck of Their Hopes", Cozzens draws on his acclaimed storytelling skills and exhaustive research efforts to fully chronicle one of the South's most humiliating defeats. As in his earlier books, he brings to life the… Read More
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