Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson. Ballantine Books, $18 (928pp) ISBN 978-0-345-35942-1
Likely to become the standard one-volume history of our Civil War, this vivifies, with palpable immediacy, scholarly acumen and interpretive skill, events foreshadowing the conflict, the war itself and its basic issue: slavery. Photos. (Feb.)
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Reviewed on: 01/01/1989
Genre: Nonfiction
Analog Audio Cassette - 978-1-4281-0424-2
Hardcover - 936 pages - 978-0-19-503863-7
Open Ebook - 978-1-59740-911-7
Paperback - 936 pages - 978-0-19-516895-2
