description: In April 1865, the Civil War was drawing to a close. Richmond had fallen. Lee was in retreat. The Confederates were debating a last-ditch guerrilla warfare assault. The surrender at Appomattox would soon follow, and in five days President Lincoln would fall to an assassin's bullet. How would the war end? Would the country be able to pull itself together after the wrenching conflict? And how would the shaky presidential transition affect the mood of the nation? Historian Jay Winik takes the reader back to that tumultuous time in a book that master Civil War historian James McPherson says "fully measures up to the importance of its subject."
language: English
title: April 1865 The Month That Saved America
titlecomplete: April 1865 The Month That Saved America
genres: Civil War, American, Historical, Military Fiction, American History, American Civil War, War, Nonfiction, History, Military History
ratings_count: 12092
publisher: Recorded Books