[nopardons]

Unfortunately, I'm one of those poor souls who sometimes falls for the NEW cover and then have to return the book, because I have it already. I have so many books, that if I haven't read the book in a while, I will forget the title and rebuy. :-(

Yes, Penguin is pretty bad, when it comes to "book art"! But they do carry many a good title; so all isn't lost. The old saw" never judge a book by its cover", says it all and not in the way it was meant to!

Excuse me while I don my kevlar suit......there, that's better. I find the Civil War worse than boring; but thanks anyway, for the suggestion. The part of American history, of that era, that interests me, is the theatre, books/authors, socialites/Robber Barrons, immigration, and people's lives.

[AnAmericanMother]

Then you might like "The Life of Johnny Reb" which is a description of the daily life of the Confederate soldier, taken from letters, journals, etc. There's a corresponding volume, "The Life of Billy Yank". Bell Wiley wrote the first, I think the second one too.

(I wrote my thesis on the American Civil War, so naturally I think it's pretty interesting, or I would have written about something else.)