Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
Recommended by Asha Rangappa and Robert Maguire
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Civil War, American History, and History.
When prizewinning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing frontline dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his o...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Civil War, American History, and History.
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