Mackinlay Kantor – författare

"The greatest of our Civil War novels."—The New York TimesThe 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Chuck Noel has blue eyes, from which the pigment seems to have been washed by dry heat until only the blanched, toughened iris remains. He wears his hat on the back of his huge head, and in the hollow of his left arm is a light shoulder-holster with a spring clip. A double-action Colt .45 reposes there.

Occasionally, of course, he has need to remove the Colt from beneath the spring clip, very hurriedly. But that is never in the Little Owl cafe...

Recounts the dramatic surrender of General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in a new, illustrated edition.From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of  Andersonville  comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that led to the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--and ultimately to the end of the Civil War. MacKinlay Kantor's book for young readers captures all the emotions and drama of those few days in April 1865: Lee's mingled sorrow and relief, Grant's generosity toward his late opponent and the nearly starving Confederate soldiers; and the two commanders' negotiation of surrender terms intended to help heal the wounds of more than four years of the most violent conflict in American history.