Great Civil War

<p>The crowning achievement of one of America's most distinguished military historians. --Lincoln Prize jury<br /><br />Readers will find much to debate in this book--including . . . its affirmation that because of emancipation 'the Civil War calls for a rethinking of the attitude . . . that war is always futile that its rewards never match its cost that any conflict [must be] immediately decisive and virtually without loss of American lives.' --Gary W. Gallagher</p>