num_pages: 648
description: "The crowning achievement of one of America's most distinguished military historians." ―Lincoln Prize jury"Readers will find much to debate in this book―including . . . its affirmation that, because of emancipation, 'the Civil War calls for a rethinking of the attitude . . . that war is always futile, that its rewards never match its cost, that any conflict [must be] immediately decisive and virtually without loss of American lives.'" ―Gary W. Gallagher
language: English
title: A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865
publisher: Indiana University Press