Fateful lightning
Subtitle: a new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction
By: Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780199843282
Subjects: History; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Notes: "First edition ... was originally published as The crisis of the American Republic : a history of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, St. Martin's Press, 1994"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Nation Announcing Itself; title: The Game of Balances; title: Year of Meteors; title: Sullen Hymns of Defeat; title: Elusive Victories : East and West, 1862-1863; title: The Soldier's Tale; title: The Manufacture of War; title: Year That Trembled : East and West, 1863; title: World Turned Upside Down; title: Stalemate and Triumph; title: A Dim Shore Ahead; title: Epilogue.