The March

With taut, incendiary prose, E.L. Doctorow sweeps us up into the sixty-thousand troop force that was General Sherman’s march through Georgia and the Carolinas. Epic in scope, unsparing yet tender, The March captures the brutal truth that war is fought and suffered by individual men, women, and children. This is an important American novel which lays bare not only Sherman’s momentous trek through the south, but the trek into our own dusty and blood-filled past, the smoke of gun barrels and burned homes rising through the trees where the hope for peace and redemption endures.