The March
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated…
Why read it?
1 author picked The March as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I knew E.L. Doctorow from his gangster novel Billy Bathgate and loved his quirky characters and beautifully controlled prose. The March is a story set in the American Civil War, more specifically, General Sherman’s famous scorched-earth march through the Confederate South from Atlanta to Savannah.
We don’t see a lot of Sherman, though he’s well drawn: the book centres on the oddball mix of soldiers, deserters, civilians, and photographers caught up in the army’s slipstream and how it changed their lives.
I admired it for its realism and the clear sense of the randomness of war: who survives, who dies,…
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