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Title: Great Reading
Review: I found this one volume book on the Civil War to be excellent reading and thought provoking. It is concise and easy to read, but filled with interesting detail about the people who made the era what it was. The only failing is the lack of detailed maps showing the battlefields and the troop movements which are so important to understanding the outcome of the various battles.The author quotes extensively from letters and other writings of the era to help the reader climb into the minds of those who were doing the fighting and the making the decisions. He is not afraid of looking into controversy. The loyality of Gen. McCelland is carefully called into question for example, but in a balanced fashion.I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Civil War. It does not have the detail one finds in multi volume works on the war, but it is well done and filled with enough detail to hold the reader's interest from first to last.
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