Civil War Q&A: A Knowledge Challenge Handbook - Paperback

by Lloyd W. Klein (Author), Eric J. Wittenberg (Author)

This Civil War sourcebook organizes the crucial details of the war in an inventive format designed to enhance the reader's knowledge base and big-picture understanding of key events and outcomes. The war's causes, political and economic issues, important personalities, campaigns and battles are examined. Nearly 200 reader challenges stimulate reviews of critical moments, with suggested further reading. Photographs and maps have been carefully selected to supplement the topic being explored.

Author Biography

Lloyd W. Klein is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a cardiologist who has made numerous contributions to the field of cardiology in the past 35 years. He is also a historian who has published extensively on the Civil War, with a particular interest in political and military leadership and their economic ramifications. Eric J. Wittenberg is the author of 22 books on the Civil War and is a member of the boards of directors of the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust and Little Big Horn Associates and also serves as the program coordinator for the Chambersburg Civil War Seminars and Tours. He is an attorney in private practice in Columbus, Ohio.