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This TIME-branded sesquicentennial coffee-table book is handsome, but there's not enough going on inside. The focus is resolutely old-fashioned: the Civil War as a military conflict, with little reference to social or moral contexts. "Great generals" receive individual attention, either via extensive profiles or in captioned images within particular battle chapters. The publisher claims the book has the "latest discoveries and analysis by scholars of the conflict," b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More