Escape from Andersonville: A Novel of the Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 0312363737
- ISBN-13
- 9780312363734
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 342
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-05-13
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Authors
- Gene Hackman, Daniel Lenihan
Description
Incarcerated within a murderous Confederate prison camp in 1864, Union officer Nathan Parker narrowly escapes and urges his superiors to intervene, but when his efforts are blocked by military higher-ups, he organizes a private rescue mission with a shady ex-soldier. 40,000 first printing.
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