An account of the Battle of Gettysburg is viewed through the eyes of a pacifist who comes to accept the nasty necessity of combat and who becomes involved in an intense and skewed romance along the way. Simultaneous. 20,000 first printing.
MacKinley Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa, on February 4, 1904. In 1934, he published Long Remember, which received numerous rave reviews and became his first bestseller. Ten years later, Kantor was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Andersonville. He was one of the most well-known American writers during the 1950s and still remains one of the most respected Civil War authors to date. He died on October 11, 1977.