Richmond Then and Now Mall 3: Books about the War Between the States

Richmond Then and Now Mall

Books About the War Between the States

	April 1865: The Month That Saved America By Jay Winik Winik is an exceptionally good storyteller. April 1865 is full of memorable images and you-are-there writing. Readers will come away with a new appreciation for that momentous month and a sharpened understanding of why and how the Civil War was fought. Let it be said plainly: April 1865 is a magnificent work, surely the best book on the Civil War to be published in some time. -- John J. Miller
	Lee By Douglas Southall Freeman. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author, Douglas Southall Freeman, relates the details in the life of one of history's most facinating figures.
	R. E. Lee: Volume 1 , by Douglas Southall Freeman R. E. Lee: Volume 2, by Douglas Southall Freeman R. E. Lee: Volume 3 , by Douglas Southall Freeman R. E. Lee: Volume 4, by Douglas Southall Freeman The New York Times called it "Lee complete for all time," while historian Dumas Malone wrote: "Great as my personal expectations were, the realization far surpassed them." Freeman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this biography.
	The Story of the Confederacy By Robert Self Henry In his foreword to the book, the distinguished historian Douglas Southall Freeman praises this as "the one book with which to begin one's study of the period it covers and the book to which to return when everything else on the subject has been read." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
	Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capitol by Nelson D. Lankford The first contemporary account of the last days of the Confederate capital, Richmond Burning is at once a superb work of history and a stunning piece of dramatic prose.
	An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government By William C. Davis "By February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of its army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled to achieve their own differing visions: Jefferson Davis, autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost, and his secretary of war, General John C. Breckinridge, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered remnants of the land he so loved." "William C. Davis traces the astounding journey of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet, as they fled Richmond by train, then by mule, then on foot. Using original research, he narrates, with dramatic style and clear historical accuracy, the futile quarrels of the two men as they continued their flight from their eventual fate."--BOOK JACKET.

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