Author: WARD, Geoffrey C.
Title: The CIVIL War: An Illustrated History
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 425pp. Numerous illustrations (some color), color maps, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Pristine, tight and bright sixth printing of this exhaustively illustrated narrative of the war, organized chronologically. Best of all, the front flyleaf bears a fine, archival, decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly in full by James M. McPherson (born 1936), the Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian who contributes one of this book's chapters. "Based on a documentary filmscript by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns," this is the superbly-illustrated companion guide to Ken Burns' groundbreaking Civil War miniseries. .

Keywords: Civil War


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