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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
This is really a dumb disagreement, especially in this thread. LoveMacs requested information about books on the American Civil War and so that is the question people responded to. Yes, there was also a Civil War in England. I can name off of the top of my head two others; The Spanish Civil War and the Russian Civil War. That's even still keeping a European/North American point of view. But the question was about the American Civil War.
The Civil War in America was a seminal event in American history. In addition to resolving the long simmering issue of slavery (on the correct side of course) it also transformed political and public views from thinking “These United States of America” to “The United States of America.”
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TBH, I would like to see threads on other civil wars( goes off to start thread).