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Title: The Good Stuff!
Review: Often, civil war battle studies disappoint. Not enough detail or enough maps/pictures to visually augment the narrative and orient the reader. Frequently, gobs of assumption with little scholarship or research. Sometimes a prejudice about a particular commander or ignorance about a particular manuever will spoil the whole treatise.This isn't the case with Tim Smith's definitive coverage of the Battle for Vicksburg, with emphasis on the Champion Hill Battle. He gives you the context but hones in on the Champion Hill struggle as the prelude to the inevitable surrender of Vicksburg. He is objective, articulate, descriptive, precise and interesting in the narrative but he doesn't leave you behind somewhere in the ravines and thickets east of Vicksburg either.This is a battle study. And you can use the book with current photos and historical maps to study the battle. I'm not sure that anyone could improve on this volume.
