A discussion of the top 12 Civil War books ever written — “here are a dozen books that, for me, tell the story of the Civil War with literary elegance, intellectual gusto and enormous flair.”
I own and have read half of the 12. Professor LaFantasie’s choices seem sound, if subjective. I like his suggestion to read one a month in 2011, the 150th anniversary of the first year of the war. I intend to try that, even re-reading the six.
I also recommend The Killer Angels as the best Civil War novel.
Glenn LaFantasie was a colleague of mine at the U.S. Department of State.