Title: A Brilliantly Written Book
Product review: Ernest B. Furgurson has proven that Walt Whitman was wrong. The "good, gray poet" once said that the real Civil War would never get into the books. "Not War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864" is as about as close to the reality and horrors of that struggle as we are likely to get. I absolutely defy anyone to read the opening paragraph of the Prologue without reading the book to its end. I recommend it not only to everyone interested in the Civil but to everyone who admires brilliant writing. This book is military history at its finest, but it is far more than military history because of the complex moral, philosophical and psychological questions that it raises and with which it deals. With "Not War But Murder", Furgurson, who has already written two fine Civil War books, joins the ranks of such distingished historians of that perilous time as Bruce Catton and Lloyd Lewis.
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