Andersonville: Pulitzer Prize Winner [Paperback]

“The greatest of our Civil War novels” (New York Times) reissued for a new generation

As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nation’s bloodiest conflict. MacKinlay Kantor’sAndersonvilletells the story of the notorious Confederate Prisoner of War camp, where fifty thousand Union soldiers were held captive—and fourteen thousand died—under inhumane conditions. This new edition will be widely read and talked about by Civil War buffs and readers of gripping historical fiction.“The greatest of our Civil War novels.” —The New York Times

“No one who reads it will ever forget.” —Christian Science Monitor

“A heartfelt novel...written with truth and power.” —Atlantic Monthly

“The best Civil War novel I have ever read, without question.” —Bruce Catton, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian,Chicago Tribune

“Will give Civil War buffs their greatest hour sinceGone With the Wind.” —Time

“A great book, perhaps the greatest of all Civil War novels.” —Chicago Sun-TimesMACKINLAY KANTOR (1904-1977) was the distinguished author of more than thirty books and numerous screenplays.

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Sometimes there was a compulsion which drew Ira Claffey from his plantation and sent him to walk the forest. It came upon him at eight o’clock on this morning of October twenty-third; he responded, he yielded, he climbed over the snake fence at the boundary of his sweet potato field and went away among the pines.

Ira Claffey had employed no overseer since the first year of the war, and had risen early this morning to direct his hands in the potato patch. NowadayslÄ