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by Kathy Hepinstall
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsIn the midst of the American Civil War, a southern plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for interfering with his slaves. She is sent to an island mental asylum to come to terms with her wrongdoing, but instead finds love and escape with a war-haunted Confederate soldier.
by E.L. Doctorow
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsStunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself. The "Great March" in E. L. Doctorow's hands becomes something more a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.
by Robert Hicks
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsA brilliant debut novel that captures the end of an era, the vast madness of war, and the courage of a remarkable woman to claim life from the grasp of death itself.
by David Poyer
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsIn the third volume of David Poyer's monumental Civil War at Sea cycle, North meets South in the momentous first battle between ironclads.
by Michael Cunningham
Published Apr 2006
Read Reviews"A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse." --USA Today.
by Jeff Shaara
Published May 1999
Read ReviewsFull of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history, The Last Full Measure is the fitting capstone to a magnificent literary trilogy.
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