Religious, Military, War, United States, Literary 

Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly twenty-five years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered - and 14,000 died - and of the people whose lives were changed by the grim camp where the best and the worst of the Civil War came together. Here is the savagery of the camp commandant, the deep compassion of a nearby planter and his gentle daughter, the merging of valor and viciousness within the stockade itself, and the day-to-day fight for survival among the cowards, cutthroats, innocents, and idealists thrown together by the brutal struggle between North and South. A moving portrait of the bravery of people faced with hopeless tragedy, this is the inspiring American classic of an unforgettable period in American history.  

Synopsis
"The greatest of our Civil War novels."—The New York Times. The 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.

About the Author
MacKINLAY KANTOR (1904-1977) was the distinguished author of more than thirty books and numerous screenplays. 

Genre/Form: War stories
Fiction
History
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: MacKinlay Kantor

ISBN: 0452269563 9780452269569
OCLC Number: 1011628433
Notes: Previously published.
Awards: Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1956
Description: 766 pages : map ; 23 cm
Responsibility: MacKinlay Kantor.