C. Brian Kelly

Interesting stories, did not care for the style of writing.

Brief, interesting stories that make for a good bathroom reader. Best for picking out anecdotes. The writing was uneven. Many of the stories tried to build suspense by hiding the name or location of the event until halfway through, which made for a very confusing story.

This book is filled with short pieces about events or people during the Civil War. Because I've read several books on the Civil War some of them were familar to me, but many were not. It was interesting to learn a little more about the backgrounds of some of the key officers which I hadn't known and probably wouldn't have learned without reading a biography of that figure. As always when dealing with the Civil War, many of the events were sad.

Breezy, lightly-sourced capsule histories of various Revolutionary War episodes. Better (read: any) source notes would be very useful. The writing is very informal, bordering on too informal - the stories themselves aren't told terribly, though.