John O. (buzzby) - , reviewed on 8/1/2008 + 6062 more book reviews

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I have a different take than a previous reviewer, having satiated my appetite for the military history of the war; This gives a pretty good short history of the time leading up to the civil war and the causes, albiet usually through the eyes of newspapers. It doesn't get to the Fort Sumter conflict until page 263, and uses the battles as a backdrop to the social and political events (unless you wanted to consider the social and political events as backdrops to the battles, I suppose).

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