Historic Photos of the Siege of Petersburg seeks to show in period photos the time of the 1864-1865 trench warfare known as Siege of Petersburg. The book “recounts this pivotal event in the war through hundreds of historic photographs, [...]. Spotlighted here are many of the soldiers and officers embroiled in the contest, the ingenious fortifications they designed, and the harm they wrought and sustained in their struggle to champion a cause.”

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In an unrelated thread, books with different perspectives on history have been mentioned. Got me to thinking. If you want to share a book that you think is outstanding, maybe we can aggregate a list here. Maybe give the book’s title and ‘category’ — And maybe there can be a tie-in somehow with the soon-to-open Minerva Books? Feel free to submit ideas…