Book cover of The War for the Union, Vol. 1: The Improvised War, 1861-1862

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Adventures of the leader of the Vermont militia which took on the British Army during the American Revolution

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Yes, I know: “Eight volumes? Are you mad, Kratman?” 

This is unquestionably the greatest single history on the American Civil War ever written. There are over sixty thousand books about the Civil War in existence. You cannot hope to read them all. This being true, if the subject interests you—and it ought, because the Civil War made the United States what it is—if you can read only eight, make this series the eight. Think of it as a really long single volume work.

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