The Confederate Nation 1861-1865 (The New American Nation Series)

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. Third printing. Jacket spine faded, light edge wear, embossed owner stamp on front endpaper. 1979 Hard Cover. xvi, 384 pp. We have for years needed a serious, scholarly, readable work on the Confederate nation that rounds up modem scholarship and offers a fresh and detached view of the whole subject. This work fills that order admirably ... [Thomas] sensibly and deftly integrates the course of Southern military fortunes with the concerns that shaped them and were shaped by them. In doing so he also manages to convey a sense of how the war itself deteriorated from something spirited and gallant to something base and mean and modern on both sides.