Indulge your taste in History. Here is an opportunity to get a boxed set of some of the great figures of the American Civil War. In three volumes there is U. S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Mary Drake McFreely. Civil War Memoirs is part of our ongoing efforts to build up a list of the finest in Classic Works of History. For a modest fee you can even get your set gift wrapped - and have fun opening your present.

In his classic biography, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, (hb,784pp) Carl Sandburg paints a glowing and historically acurate portrait of the great war leader whose moral strength and political intelligence were and are an inspiration to the American Nation to this day. Sandburg, besides his work as a biographer was a famous poet. This masterpiece is essential reading for any student of conservative studies.

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Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West comes in two volumes. In it he propounds a theory that history moves in a cyclical rise and fall of cultures. He differentiates the ancient with the modern and finds that the modern is in decline. This fascinating if sometimes convoluted study was published from 1926 to 1928 and it still stirs controversy today.

Decline of the West: Vol 1 (hb)

Decline of the West: Vol 2 (hb)

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The Oregon Trail (pb) by Francis Parkman details the famous historians trip from New England to Wyoming and back during the rugged pioneer days.

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Though much maligned in recent years for leading the "vicious, thoughtless, cruel and unjust" Europeans to the pristine western hemisphere in 1492, Columbus was a man of vision and fortitude. It was his force of character that opened a new world for discovery and opened men's minds to new ideas and new challenges.

Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (pb) , by Samuel Eliot Morrison details all we know of the life of this great man, from his origins in Genoa to his four fantastic voyages to the new world.

Columbus's voyage log is still extant and has been translated into English by Robert H. Fuson. For some interesting first hand history in the making read, The Log of Christopher Columbus (hb, 252pp), by Christopher Columbus.