Mark Twain's Civil War: The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

by Mark Twain

Book Overview

From the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twain's controversial Civil War story "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Twenty years after Appomattox, Twain published a highly fictionalized account of his two-week stint in the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this told what he did (or, in his own words, why he "didn't do anything") in the war; but the article was criticized as disingenuous, and it did little to address a growing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597144789
• ISBN13: 9781597144780
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.1"