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The book by American historian James Ford Rhodes, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1918, describes in detail and meticulously the defining event for the United States - the Civil War of 1861-1865. This book is not a dry chronicle, but instead reinforces each event with detailed portraits of contemporaries and their own reflections. The author examines the Civil War not only through the prism of battles, but also adds a wide panorama of the diplomatic game, penetrates government offices, cotton plantations, and the streets of industrial cities. And all this to tell the story of the Civil War as objectively, vividly and in detail as possible.