num_pages: 558
description: Jacket art from a painting by Winslow Homer. A novel about the Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864 which wiped out a large number of the Union's black troops.
language: English
title: The Crater
titlecomplete: The Crater
genres: Fiction, American History, Military Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, American Civil War, Civil War, Historical
ratings_count: 62
places: The United States of America
publisher: Atheneum