Mixing history with fiction, master novelist E.L. Doctorow lends his special brand of spin to one of the Civil War's most dramatic chapters—Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's infamous March to the Sea.
Doctorow's tale, a finalist for the National Book Award, traces the course of Sherman and his Union troops across Georgia and both Carolinas. Raiding, stealing and killing along the way, the Army carves a bloody path, and
Doctorow delivers a remarkable chronicle of the journey, personifying real-life figures like Sherman—here, a moody, power-hungry leader, whose ambitions are stronger than his military skills—and introducing convincing characters of his own.
Copyright 2006 BookPage Reviews.
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