Don't Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned

“Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”-New York Times Book Review

“Lively and relevant.” -USA Today


Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events-Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet ...