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The American Civil War: History in an Hour

By: Kat Smutz
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.

The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the country united.

The American Civil War: History in an Hour gives a concise and authoritative overview of these four years of bloody and devastating warfare to help you understand how the Civil War shaped America today and changed the history of slavery forever.

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…

©2012 Kat Smutz (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers Limited 19th Century 20th Century Military Modern Civil War War Abraham Lincoln

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Critic reviews

‘If the past is a foreign country, History in an Hour is like a high-class tour operator, offering delightfully enjoyable short breaks in the rich and diverse continent of our shared past’ Dominic Sandbrook

‘The practice of History is ever-evolving, and the History In An Hour idea brings it back up to date for the digital age’ Andrew Roberts, Bookseller

‘This is genius’ MacWorld.com
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As an introduction to understand what was at stake, for confederate states really meant .... it is a great lesson of history.

Simply perfect

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I wanted to get an overview and the key facts and was delivered exactly this.. It also allows me a road map to follow if I wished to go further . The reader's pace is perfect for me and his tone is like Chopin varied and accessible. A great series

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This weekend I listened to Charles I in which an American narrator mispronounced almost everything and now The American Civil war in which an Englishman mispronouced a number of American nouns. why not switch the narrators? just saying.

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