Customer Reviews:
 Gorgeously illustrated, with some annoying flaws July 1, 2008
Geschichtsliebhaber (Oldenburg, Niedersachsen)
James McPherson didn't write the 'Atlas of the Civil War'. He did, however, write introductory essays to each year of the war, as well as prologues and epilogues. They're fantastic: well-written and -argued, with lavish full-page pictures, and although there's too little reflection on certain issues (e.g. the (il)legality of secession), that's simply not the point. The rest of the atlas is also gorgeously illustrated, with highly detailed maps and well-chosen quotes. The accompanying articles, however, are inferior, especially typographically. There seems, for instance, to be no agreement as to whether a word split should be hyphenated (Con-/federate or Con/federate), and typograhpical errors also occur frequently. Apart from these minor issues, the entire atlas is great. I wish there was a little more on the civilian population and politics, but it is a work of military history, so that isn't fair
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