In 1955, when MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville first came out, a reviewer for the Sun-Times called it "A great book, perhaps the greatest of all Civil War novels."
This appreciation is a piece worth reading.
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In 1955, when MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville first came out, a reviewer for the Sun-Times called it "A great book, perhaps the greatest of all Civil War novels."