Reflections on the Civil War

✍ Scribed by Bruce Catton

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Edited from tapes that the Pulitzer prize-winnng historian made before his death, this moving, informative book paints an intimate portrait of war. It's a chronicle of motives and emotions, from larger than life figures Lincoln and Lee to young John B.

✦ Subjects

History, Nonfiction, HIS036040, HIS036050, HIS049000

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