Serious Civil War buffs will delight in this magisterial treatment. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the American Civil War, published in 1988, by James M. McPherson's accompanying captions sometimes overdo the characterological readings (in one portrait of a Confederate general we can supposedly""almost see Breckinridge's handlebar mustache twitching in anger""), but they provide interesting biographical background as well as piquant details and an indelible period feel. It was hailed in The New York Times as " historical writing of the highest order." The. Now available in this splendid new edition, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom boasts some seven hundred pictures, including a hundred and fifty color images and twenty. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times Bestseller, Battle Cry of Freedom is universally recognized as the definitive account of the Civil War.
THE ILLUSTRATED BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM ARCHIVE
0 Ratings 2 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Donate this book to the Internet Archive library. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times Bestseller, Battle Cry of Freedom is universally recognized as the definitive account of the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom matches stirring drama with analytical insight, presenting the critical episodes of the era in vivid detail against the backdrop of. This new edition eliminates the footnotes and trims a fifth of the text to make way for color maps of major battles and campaigns and hundreds of photographs, cartoons and artist's depictions from the period. The illustrated Battle cry of freedom the Civil War era by James M. Battle cry of freedom Autocropversion 0.0.5books-20210916-0. Encyclopedic in scope, it synthesizes political and military history into a sweeping narrative of America's national epic, one that paints the North's victory as the triumph of a""revolutionary future"" of""competitive, egalitarian, free-labor capitalism"" over the tradition-bound and hierarchical society of the South. The illustrated Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning opus is by now the standard one-volume treatment of the Civil War.
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