Pulitzer
Prize-winning writer Bruce Catton was America’s
greatest Civil War historian, and he made the events of that
seminal conflict come alive for
millions In this, his final book, edited from many hours of tapes after Catton’s death, he goes right to the heart and soul of what
brought this nation to the
battlefield He reflects not only on military history, but also on the actual experience of army life for the common soldier; 17 period drawings by soldier-artist John Geyser, a young private in the Union Army, enhance the insightful words. Catton plunges into the spirit of the time to uncover the motives and emotions that caused the flood of war.
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