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Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the war between the states, this searing pulitzer prizewinning book captures all the glory and shame of americas most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Kantor won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1956 for his novel, andersonville. This novel won the pulitzer prize in 1955 and is a stirring account of the horrors faced by the prisoners at andersonville. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Librivox recording of prison life in andersonville by john levi maile. Andersonville, complete by john mcelroy part 8 out of 10. About the book the greatest of our civil war novels.
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