Currently professor of history at Virginia Tech, William C. Davis has written over fifty books, most about the American Civil War. He has won the Jefferson Davis Prize for southern history three times, the Jules F. Landry Award for Southern history once, and has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
For several years, he was the editor of the magazine Civil War Times Illustrated. He has also served as a consultant on the A&E television series Civil War Journal.
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Was a great read overall. The book is filled with pictures and captions to read not just normal chapters like any other book. I loved the amount of pictures it had that I had never seen before and they all had wonderful descriptions. The book was very lengthy but I knew what I was getting into before I started it and I love the subject it covered. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in learning a lot about the Civil War.