Paul Christopher Anderson is University Historian and Associate Professor of History at Clemson University, USA. He is the author of Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind (2002).
Concisely introducing political, economic, and social matters, the author reduces battle detail in favor of analysis and enhances thematic interpretation. In a very real sense Anderson brings the story into the new century, making it relevant to today ... Recommended for all libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels. - CHOICE Displaying a splendid gift for compressing facts without altering truths, Paul Anderson has produced a short history of the American Civil War that is long on quality and understanding. Lively, succinct, and perceptive, it is filled with sound, balanced judgments that make rare sense of a sprawling, complex, and crucial era in American history. A marvelous introduction to the war. --Daniel E. Sutherland, University of Arkansas