Dimensions
156 x 236 x 41mm
This is a provocative and wide-ranging anthology of essays on the Civil War - America's defining struggle and the first modern war in history.
In 35 illuminating essays it examines the war from the perspectives critical to its outcome - the larger-than-life personalities of the important players from Lincoln to Lee, and the national strategies and key battle tactics that shaped the four-year-long crisis.
Contributors include the leading light of Civil War scholarship: James M McPherson, Stephen W Sears, Gary W Gallagher, David Herbert Donald and twenty others.
