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Book Reviews by subject:
American Civil War

July 2024 Issue

Richard Carwardine

The Blood-Spattered Banner

American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873

By Alan Taylor

August 2019 Issue

Richard Carwardine

Emancipation and Beyond

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W Blight

February 2003 Issue

William Palmer

Southern Man

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War

By T J Stiles

John Bayley

Doing the Charleston

A Turn in the South

By V S Naipaul

December 2003 Issue

Tristan Quinn

Prophet And Loss

American Massacre: The Tragedy At Mountain Meadows, September 11, 1857

By Sally Denton

Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

By Jon Krakauer

February 2009 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

American Idol

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

September 2008 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

King Dubya

The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy

By Frank Prochaska

In Defence of America

By Bronwen Maddox

February 2005 Issue

Paul Johnson

Civil Warrior

Robert E Lee: Icon for a Nation

By Brian Holden Reid

February 2013 Issue

Josh Glancy

The Sin that Wouldn’t Die

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

By Douglas A Blackmon