This is a main selection of the History Book Club. "Expertly renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battle, capturing both the evolving strategies of each side and the horrendous experience of the fight...[This book] is built upon a bonanza of primary research, with the author having combed[...]
Civil War enthusiasts will welcome this concluding volume of Peter Cozzens' highly praised trilogy on the Civil War in the West. The battle around Chattanooga in the late fall of 1863 were among the most decisive of the Civil War, opening the Deep South to the Union and setting the stage for the Atl[...]
This is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, non-combatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. Volume III offers as complete a selection of outstanding original accounts pertaining to the stru[...]