10 Best Novels About the Civil War

[BettyO]

Quote:the 10 Novels are:
1. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
2. North and South by John Jakes
3. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
4. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
5. Oldest Confederat Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
6. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
7. Shiloh by Shelby Foote
8. March by Geraldine Brooks
9. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
10. The March by E L Doctorow

Of these novels, I'd have to say that MY personal favorite, of course, is Gone with the Wind followed by The Killer Angels and Red Badge of Courage -

Of course, GWTW is more a historical romance than about the actual fighting - but Mitchell based it on Mary Johnston's CW books - The Long Roll and Cease Firing about the Stonewall Brigade during the war and published in the early half of the 20th Century.

Red Badge is, of course, a classic - and I'm surprised that McKinley Kantor's Andersonville didn't make the list - particularly above Jakes' romantically overwrought North and South "fluff"....Foote's Shiloh is another "do not miss"....

Another one that didn't make the list is our own Wild Bill's Last Confederate Heroes - I know I keep stressing it, but it's the best assassination novel I've ever read - don't miss it.....