Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864

by Chris Mackowski

Book Overview

Finalist, 2016, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award

Soldiers called it one of the "waste places of nature" and "a region of gloom"--the Wilderness of Virginia, seventy square miles of dense, second-growth forest known as "the dark, close wood."

"A more unpromising theatre of war was never seen," said another.

Yet here, in the spring of 1864, the Civil War escalated to a new level of horror.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611213150
• ISBN13: 9781611213157
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Savas Beatie
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"