The Shipwreck Of Their Hopes; The Battles For Chattanooga
by Cozzens, Peter
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0252019229
- ISBN 13
- 9780252019227
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About This Item
Urbana: University of Chicago Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. Signed first edition of The Shipwreck Of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga by Peter Cozzens.. Octavo, xii, 515pp. Blue cloth, title in silver on spine. Full number line on copyright page. In publisher's fine dust jacket. Signed by Peter Cozzens on the title page. Peter Cozzens is an award winning author of numerous books on the Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West. He served as a Foreign Service Officer for the United States Department of State and was awarded the department's William R. Rivkin award for service in 2002. He is the recipient of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize and the 2016 Caroline Bancroft Prize for history. Some of his works include: The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (2016), This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga (1992), and The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga (1994). His next book will be Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied A Nation, expected in 2020.
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- Title
- The Shipwreck Of Their Hopes; The Battles For Chattanooga
- Author
- Cozzens, Peter
- Illustrator
- Signed first edition of The Shipwreck Of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga by Peter Cozzens.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0252019229
- ISBN 13
- 9780252019227
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- first edition Peter Cozzens, signed book Peter Cozzens, Tecumseh and the Prophet Cozzens, The Earth is Weeping Cozzens, This Terrible Sound Cozzens, The Shipwreck of their Hopes Cozzens, Battle of Chattanooga, Battle of Chickamauga, The Indian Wars
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