Andersonville Mackinlay Kantor by Mackinlay Kantor 9780147515377, 0147515378, B00OQSF5XE instant download after payment.

As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nation’s bloodiest conflict. MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville tells the story of the notorious Confederate Prisoner of War camp, where fifty thousand Union soldiers were held captive — and fourteen thousand died — under inhumane conditions. This new edition will be widely read and talked about by Civil War buffs and readers of gripping historical fiction.

"Man's inhumanity to Man -- and the redeeming flashes of mercy -- this is the theme at the heart of this grim record in fictional form of one of the blots on the nation's history. Andersonville, the prisoner stockade in Georgia, twenty acres hewn out of pine woods, counted for more dead in fourteen months of the Civil War than Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg combined...It is a superb achievement -- long, harrowing, but essential reading not only for students of the Civil War but for students of mankind."  -  Kirkus Reviews

Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel Andersonville