num_pages: 240
description: The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history and a defining moment of the nineteenth century. In this concise and authoritative volume, Brian Holden Reid -- a leading expert on the subject -- reveals how industrialization and emerging methods of mass production gave birth to a new age of warfare, most dramatically represented in the unprecedented destruction and mass casualties of the American Civil War.
language: English
title: The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century
titlecomplete: The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
genres: Modern, History, The United States Of America, The World, Science, War, American Civil War, Nonfiction, Art, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 83
publisher: Harper Perennial