The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Volume I

This is a good book, Davis' military judgments are questionable as always but his account of events is pretty straightforward and in my opinion mostly honest, even if self-serving. I never realized the extent to which Johnston's failure to give battle allowed Sherman to make such rapid headway on hi......more

This volume is as good as the first. The topics covered in this volume are different. This volume addresses some of the actual battles of the Civil War as well as atrocities committed by the US Forces against the south. The volume is well-written and provides a great deal of information I have not f......more

A very good historical book to attempt to understand it from the Southern point of view. But he's very long-winded and repetitious orator, and unsurprisingly, the book is written more as a legal argument than anything else.......more