10 best novels about the US Civil War

8. "March," by Geraldine Brooks

Blending one great fictional tale into another, this 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner imagines the wartime experiences of Mr. March, the father of the four girls in Louisa May Alcott's classic "Little Women." In a review for the Monitor, book critic Ron Charles wrote that, "The great philosophical and military clashes of 19th-century America come excitingly alive in this carefully researched novel."

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