Never Call Retreat Author:Bruce Catton In Never Call Retreat, the concluding volume of Bruce Catton’s Civil War trilogy, he covers the most bitter years of the war, when death stalked the country with a brutality unparalleled in the United States. In the North, Lincoln remained resolute in the belief that “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” while... more » in the hopelessly fragmented and underdeveloped South, Jefferson Davis struggled valiantly for political and economic stability.
Tracing the war from Fredericksburg, to a courthouse at Appomattox, to the end of the Confederacy, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Bruce Catton concludes his thrillingly readable account of the American Civil War.« less