The History of Rome Hanks Author:Joseph Stanley Pennell A novel about the Civil War, about courage and death and life about love, and about the American dream and the American spirit. for its battle pictures alone, it is an extraordinary book. The emotion, excitement, exhilaration, disgust, horror and slaughter of battle have rarely been captured better in print . . . written with an urgency, an im... more »mediacy of impact and a thrusting, driving force." -- Orville Prescott, The New York Times« less