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     GiftSleuth -  the civil war of the U.S. A novelnotify me whenever anyone posts in this discussionSubscribe  
     
    From: pembe  Oct-15 1:42 am 
    To: chory unread  (3 of 5) 
     206.3 in reply to 206.1 

    A little off the beaten track, I believe: a couple of civil-war period books by Frances Parkinson Keyes, rather dated now but still good reading, let me think, Madame Castel's Lodger, a fictionalised version of the life of Beauregard; and The Chess Players, which includes a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in Paris by Lafayette. Both books were very thoroughly researched.

    And one I hugely enjoyed just a few years ago, Shaman by Noah Gordon, about a British doctor who ends up living among the Indians in ?Illinois, and who, with his son, also a doctor, observes and doctors during the Civil War.

    And let's not forget that Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was set during the Civil War! How old is your niece?

    Pembe

     
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    From: kikbut2  Oct-21 12:52 pm 
    To: chory unread  (4 of 5) 
     206.4 in reply to 206.1 
    The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. It won a Pulizter Prize. It is about Gettysburg and is one of the best civil war novels ever writte


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    From: SteveHL  Nov-4 5:14 pm 
    To: chory unread  (5 of 5) 
     206.5 in reply to 206.1 
    Another Pulitzer Prize winner, Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor.  One of my favorite books of any kind.
     
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