News from the Front:

American Wars


The Academic and University Publishers Group of 1, Gower Street, London WC1E 6HA continues to release a stream of books on American subjects, published by American publishers, notably the Louisiana State University Press. These are usually on Plains Wars or ACW subjects; funnily enough, most this time seem to have been ACW, and not therefore strictly within the remit of Colonial Conquest, but if the subject is an interest of yours, they are well worth checking out.

Recent titles have included Soldier Boy, The Civil War Letters of Charles O. Musser, 29th Iowa, edited by Barry Popchock (hardback, 23.50 pounds), Life in the Confederate Army by William Watson, with a new Introduction by Thomas W. Cutrer, 13.95 pounds, Out of the Storm; The End of the Civil War April-June 1865 by Noah Andre Trueau, a very handsome paperback at œ15.95, and T. Harry Williams' biography of P.G.T. Beauregard; Napoleon in Gray, at 13.95 pounds. It's true that there is something approaching overkill in ACW titles at present, but all of these are either first-rate source material or good meaty research.

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