Andersonville
Author: MacKinlay Kantor
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…..Read More
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