Review: Amazingly detailed
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 14, 2013
Any history buff will probably love this book. Obviously Jakes did a tremendous amount of research and did an amazing job of presenting both political and emotional sides of the Civil War. It's easy to see why both the North and the South reacted the way they did. If anyone has ever doubted that "war is Hell", this book will remove all doubt. The characters are believable and I really wanted to know what happened with all of them. Warning - it's a reeeeeeeeeeeeally long book. Not by any stretch of the imagination a quick read, and once I got into it, I had a hard time putting it down. Well, actually I hardly did put it down it all. Just dim your lights a bit, and the dust won't show.