For Home and Country: 9a Civil War Scrapbook

by Norman Bolotin and Angela M. Herb

A panoramic pictorial and verbal overview of the War Between the States draws on period photographs, diaries, letters, news clippings, and other items. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525674950
• ISBN13: 9780525674955
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Top-notch nonfiction

This sixth and final volume in the civil war series gives readers an overview of the war, covering topics such as: training camps, outfitting the troops, prisoners of war, and the march home. Numerous, captioned, black-and-white photographs, quotes from eyewitnesses, and facsimiles of contemporary newspaper clippings, advertisements, and letters give the book a true "scrapbook" look and feel. Includes: four-page timeline of the war; glossary; bibliography. Written in a lively tone and liberally peppered with ancedotes and interesting details, the narrative pulls the reader in and truly makes history come alive. Add to that the visually appealing graphics and well-designed layout, and you have here top-notch nonfiction.