The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, by Charles Royster (TPB, 1991, $2.50)
"From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige... Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South... An incisive dual biography... and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power." This winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History can be found on the new non-fiction table, avail. 9/19.
