Crossroads of Freedom

This concise, elegantly written book by the commanding general of the army of American Civil War historians brilliantly captures the larger meaning of the war through the prism of one bloody and pivotal battle The Times Literary Supplement [McPherson] does a superb job of re-creating a moment when the war, and all of American history that followed, might have gone altogether differently McPherson is the preeminent historian of the Civil War Washington Post