Author: James M. McPherson
Published: 1998
Pages: 904
A remarkably wide-ranging synthesis of the history of the 1850s and the Civil War ... that effectively integrates in one volume social, political, and military events from the immediate aftermath of the Mexican War through the sectional strife of the 1850s, the secession movement, and the Civil War ...
Probably the best single-volume history of America´s Civil War yet written !
