William Marvel, Author . Houghton Mifflin $30 (387p) ISBN 978-0-618-58349-2
Establishing slavery as the Civil War's central issue has fostered an acceptance of the conflict's inevitability among academic and popular historians alike. Marvel, author of several prize-winning books on the Civil War (Lee's Last...
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William Marvel, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $35 (430p) ISBN 978-0-618-99064-1
Civil War historian Marvel (Lincoln's Darkest Year
), a winner of the Lincoln Prize, demonstrates his usual command of archival and published sources in this significantly revisionist account of the Civil War's third year from the Union...
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William Marvel, Author University of North Carolina Press $55 (552p) ISBN 978-0-8078-1983-8
Union General Ambrose Burnside is the most maligned figure of the Civil War, according to the author of this first-rate biography. Accused of tactical lethargy during the battle of Antietam, Burnside then suffered a crushing defeat at Fredeno e?/sp.
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William Marvel, Author University of North Carolina Press $34.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8078-2568-6
A small town in Virginia that was unknown until April 1865, Appomattox grew out of a county founded in 1845, a backwater devoid of any events that made a splash outside the community. Marvel (Andersonville, etc.) examines its history as the village...
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William Marvel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-547-42806-2
Pointless bloodshed and moral squalor suffuse this somber, cynical climax to the author’s multivolume revisionist history of the Civil War. Marvel (The Great Task Remaining), a Lincoln Prize winner, depicts the last year of the Union war effort as a
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