Description: From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a harrowing new history of the Civil War's prisoner of war camps, North and South.
Brief description: Guggenheim Fellow W. Fitzhugh Brundage is the William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for his book Civilizing Torture, he lives in Chapel Hill.
Review Quotes: Fitzhugh Brundage has taken on the fraught subject of Civil War prisons and has come out a winner. His mastery of sources, critical and balanced evaluations of Union and Confederate policies and governance of prisons and prisoners, clear and lucid writing, and empathetic treatment of prisoners' traumatic experiences lift this book head and shoulders above other works on the topic.--James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era