Andersonville - Softcover

Kantor, MacKinlay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451077768 ISBN 13: 9780451077769

Publisher: Signet Book, 1957

Synopsis

Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly twenty-five years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered - and 14,000 died - and of the people whose lives were changed by the grim camp where the best and the worst of the Civil War came together. Here is the savagery of the camp commandant, the deep compassion of a nearby planter and his gentle daughter, the merging of valor and viciousness within the stockade itself, and the day-to-day fight for survival among the cowards, cutthroats, innocents, and idealists thrown together by the brutal struggle between North and South. A moving portrait of the bravery of people faced with hopeless tragedy, this is the inspiring American classic of an unforgettable period in American history.

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Review

"The greatest of our Civil War novels." --"The New York Times"
"No one who reads it will ever forget." --"Christian Science Monitor"
"A heartfelt novel...written with truth and power." --"Atlantic Monthly"
"The best Civil War novel I have ever read, without question." --Bruce Catton, Pultizer Prize-winning historian, "Chicago Tribune"
"Will give Civil War buffs their greatest hour since "Gone With the Wind."" --"Time"
"A great book, perhaps the greatest of all Civil War novels." --"Chicago Sun-Times"

The greatest of our Civil War novels. "The New York Times"
No one who reads it will ever forget. "Christian Science Monitor"
A heartfelt novel...written with truth and power. "Atlantic Monthly"
The best Civil War novel I have ever read, without question. Bruce Catton, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, "Chicago Tribune"
Will give Civil War buffs their greatest hour since "Gone With the Wind." "Time"
A great book, perhaps the greatest of all Civil War novels. "Chicago Sun-Times""

Synopsis

In 1864, thirty-three thousand Yankee prisoners of war suffer the horrors of imprisonment at the Confederate prison of Andersonville.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Book
• Publication date: 1957
• ISBN 10: 0451077768
• ISBN 13: 9780451077769
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English