The novel takes place on a Southern Georgia Plantation in the fall. Kantor was able to expose the universal struggle of both conflicting sides by representing the point of view of many individuals from different fronts of the war: the families at home, slaves, and oldiers. He depicts the Georgia prison for Northern soldiers in Andersonville, in order to bring forth themes that foreshadow after war effects, as well as give the audience a better understanding of the War Between the States. Mackinlay Kantor the author of a fictional Civil War novel Andersonville gives us a closer look on the South side when it came to the impact of the war. One thing is for sure though both sides experienced the harsh realities of war and took heavy losses. Although there was a division between the North and South, not all of those within the borders agreed with its side’s views. Both could be right depending on the point of view that was taken, and which side you were standing on. Some would say slavery was relatively humane and reasonable, while others think more along the lines of harsh and cruel exploitation.
Cataloging source DLC 1904-1977 Kantor, MacKinlay Dewey number 813/.The land that was settled had been ivided up into the North and the South where slave owners and those against slavery bickered, until it escalated into a Civil War. This new edition will be widely read and talked about by Civil War buffs and readers of gripping historical fiction"- Assigning source Provided by publisher Awards note Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1956.
MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville tells the story of the notorious Confederate Prisoner of War camp, where fifty thousand Union soldiers were held captive and fourteen thousand died under inhumane conditions. As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil War's 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nation's bloodiest conflict. Language eng Summary ""The greatest of our Civil War novels" (New York Times) reissued for a new generation.
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