The Civil War

The Civil War
ISBN-10
0618001875
ISBN-13
9780618001873
Series
The Civil War
Category
Fiction
Pages
382
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Bruce Catton

Description

Period prints, photographs, and documents accompany this penetrating examination of the political, military, and social aspects of the War Between the States, tracing the conflict from the earliest divisions between North and South to the final surrender of Confederate troops and its aftermath. Reprint.

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