The Civil War is an accessible non-fiction account of the American Civil War and Its Impact on the History of the United States. It establishes the causes, chronology and principal phases of the conflict while explaining the political aims and military resources of the opposing sides.
The book places campaigns and leadership within their wider setting, including diplomacy, civilian experience, economic pressure and the settlement or memory that followed. Its historical scope is represented on HBS by American Civil War. Key figures linked to the book include Abraham Lincoln.
