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Title: National Geographic Travels the Civil War...
Review: "The Civil War, by Robert Paul Jordan, is part of the seemingly limitless series of books put out by the National Geographic Society. This particular volume is better than most. It combines a thoughtful popular history of the conflict, part narrative, part travelogue, with the lavish illustrations we expect from the National Geographic Society. The illustrations are a lovely combination of Civil War-era photographs, etchings, and paintings, coupled with more modern photography, graphics, and a few paintings commissioned especially for this publication.The scholarship in the narrative, first published in 1969, is certainly a little dated. However, it gets right the key events and provides a good sense of the nature of the cataclysm that was the Civil War. "The Civil War" is highly recommended as an introduction for the general reader not concerned with the latest editions of history.
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