- History, JUVENILE NONFICTION, Nonfiction, homeschool
War, Terrible War takes us into the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Follow soldiers in blue and gray as they endure long marches, freezing winter camps, and awful battles fought on American soil.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Joy Hakim
- First published
- December 15, 1994
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195110920
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“It was the worst war in American history.”
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