Reviews
"The scale and the sophistication of A Great Civil War put it on a level with James McPherson's epic Battle Cry of Freedom" -- Denis Showalter, President, Society for Military History, "The scale and the sophistication of A Great Civil War put it on a level with James McPherson's epic Battle Cry of Freedom" -Denis Showalter, President, Society for Military History, "The crowning achievement of one of America's most distinguished military historians." -Lincoln Prize jury "Readers will find much to debate in this book-including . . . its affirmation that, because of emancipation, 'the Civil War calls for a rethinking of the attitude . . . that war is always futile, that its rewards never match its cost, that any conflict [must be] immediately decisive and virtually without loss of American lives.'" -Gary W. Gallagher, "Weigley's A Great Civil War is the finest, most complete and insightful, and historiographically up-to-date, large-scale one-volume military and political history of the U.S. war for the Union now in print." -- Herman M. Hattaway, "The scale and the sophistication of A Great Civil War put it on a level with James McPherson's epic Battle Cry of Freedom"-- Denis Showalter, President, Society for Military History "Weigley's A Great Civil War is the finest, most complete and insightful, and historiographically up-to-date, large-scale one-volume military and political history of the U.S. war for the Union now in print."--Herman M. Hattaway, "Weigley's A Great Civil War is the finest, most complete and insightful, and historiographically up-to-date, large-scale one-volume military and political history of the U.S. war for the Union now in print." -Herman M. Hattaway, Weigley's A Great Civil War is the finest, most complete and insightful, and historiographically up-to-date, large-scale one-volume military and political history of the U.S. war for the Union now in print.--Herman M. Hattaway, The scale and the sophistication of A Great Civil War put it on a level with James McPherson's epic Battle Cry of Freedom, Weigley's A Great Civil War is the finest, most complete and insightful, and historiographically up-to-date, large-scale one-volume military and political history of the U.S. war for the Union now in print.
