Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor. First edition 1956. H/C with jacket. 768 pp. 1,3 kg.

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1956.

Andersonville is described as the finest novel ever written on the American Civil War. It tells of a tragic episode in the war between North and South - the horror and the humanity of the infamous Confederate stockade wherein 30 000 Yankee prisoners of war were herded together in what became a community of the damned.

First published 1956 by WH Allen, London. Condition: Good. Previous owner's name in front. Dust jacket torn at edges, pieces of jacket missing at back.