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Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 - one-third of them - died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials. In this carefully researched and compelling revisionist account, William Marvel provides a comprehensive...

Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. William Marvel offers the first history of the Appomattox campaign written primarily from contemporary source material, with a skeptical eye toward memoirs published well after the events they purport to describe. Marvel shows that during the final week of the war in Virginia, Lee's troops were more numerous yet far less faithful to their...

The Great Task Remaining is a striking, often poignant portrait of people in conflict-not only in battles between North and South, but within and among themselves as the cost of the ongoing carnage sometimes seemed too much to bear. As 1863 unfolds, we see draft riots in New York, the disaster at Chancellorsville, the battle of Gettysburg, and the end of the siege of Vicksburg. Then, astonishingly, the Confederacy springs vigorously back to life after...

On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg. About an hour after the Alabama fired the first shot, it began to sink, and its crew was forced to wave the white flag of surrender. Working with personal papers and diaries and contemporary reports, historian William Marvel interweaves the stories of these two celebrated Civil War warships, from their...

Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's Secretary of War during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton's life, career, and legacy. Marvel argues that while Stanton was a...

Collects Death of Dracula #1 and Tomb of Dracula (1972) #54-55 and #59-63. He is the legendary Lord of the Vampires. Dracula. Who would dare attempt to overthrow him? Only Dracula's son, Xarus, a ruthless and clever upstart with the bold ambition to unite all the world's vampire sects under one flag. But Xarus's older brother, Janus, isn't sure he likes the idea of a new regime and seeks allies to oppose Xarus. The ultimate battle for control of Earth's...

Deadpool in spaaaaace! When the universe is in peril, there's only one hero who can protect us: Deadpool! (Wait, that can't be right...) The consciousness-sapping cosmic entity called the Awareness has wiped out the free will of millions of planets - and it will take the combined might, cunning and unbridled insanity of the Deadpool Corps to stop it from destroying the galaxy! Handpicked from the cream of the alternate-universe crop, Lady Deadpool,...

The most powerful, enigmatic villain in the Marvel Universe takes center stage in a galaxy-spanning tale woven by his creator, Jim Starlin (MARVEL UNIVERSE: THE END). He's held ultimate power in his hands, only to see it all slip away time and again. His attempts at conquest and destruction have all been thwarted. So what inner demons drive the mad Titan known as Thanos towards his goals -- and what hidden desires now pull at his heart and mind?

Wade Wilson stars in a killogy of chaos! It all begins when (spoilers!) Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe! But what could drive another dimension's DP to murderize every other costumed hero and villain on his world? And his bloodlust doesn't stop there. Not when the Ideaverse is full of the fabled icons of classic literature - you know, the ones your parents read about in books. And not when there are multiple realities, harboring infinite mercs...

Everywhere Deadpool goes, insanity follows! Deadpool's ridiculous team-ups continue as the maniacal Merc with a Mouth partners with some of the Marvel Universe's most respected characters...and a vampire cow. One thing's for sure: This isn't your grandpappy's Marvel Team-Up! Wade takes the world of sports entertainment by storm as he forms a tag team with the Thing, gets caught red-handed raiding the ruins of Asgard by Thor, finds new uses for chopsticks...