Bruce Catton
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton brings power and drama to this tightly packed chronicle of the struggle of the blue and the gray. A Short History of the Civil War is a superb introduction to the events, the people, and the politics that shaped this war. But it is also a great refresher course on a tragic chapter in our nation's history, filled with the suspense of great fiction and the insights of expert reporting.