{"product_id":"the-civil-war","title":"The Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became  good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being  and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering  the enormous tragedy of the whole thing.\"- Shelby Foote  from The Civil War  When the illustrated edition of The Civil War was first published  The New York Time hailed it as \"a treasure for the eye and mind.\" Now Geoffrey Wards magisterial work of history is available in a text-only edition that interweaves the authors narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood: not just Abraham Lincoln  Frederick Douglass  and Robert E. Lee  but genteel Southern ladies and escaped slaves  cavalry officers and common foot soldiers who fought in Yankee blue and Rebel gray.  The Civil War also includes essays by our most distinguished historians of the era: Don E. Fehrenbacher  on the wars origins; Barbara J. Fields  on the freeing of the slaves; Shelby Foote  on the wars soldiers and commanders; James M. McPherson  on the political dimensions of the struggle; and C. Vann Woodward  assessing the America that emerged from the wars ashes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964904042549,"sku":"ByrdShop_0739357336","price":92.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780739357330.jpg?v=1770650895","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-civil-war","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}