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Andersonville is a historical novel by MacKinlay Kantor published in 1955, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956. The novel depicts the conditions at Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner-of-war camp located in Andersonville, Georgia, which operated from 1864 to 1865 during the American C...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War prison novel with major historical-literary reputation; grim power and scale are widely recognized.
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"Long Remember" is a historical novel written by MacKinlay Kantor and published in 1934. The narrative provides a detailed depiction of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Unique for its time, the story prominently features the perspective of civilian townspeople living...
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Respected Gettysburg civilian-perspective novel from a Pulitzer-winning historical novelist; strong historical fiction reputation, peripheral to western genre.
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