<DIV><p> <p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;One of the finest Civil War books in years.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Mobile Press-Register</I></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Excellent. . . . a memorable and moving portrait of a besieged city.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Booklist</I></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;An absolute pleasure to read.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Civil War News</I></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Mr. Bonds correctly notes that recent revisionist historians have tried to play down or even deny Sherman&rsquo;s role in the burning.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Winston Groom in the Wall Street Journal</I></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;The freshness of the writing style, the pace of the story, and the handling of an entire campaign is as compelling as Bruce Catton&rsquo;s landmark Army of the Potomac trilogy.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Civil War Librarian</I></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Well-researched and well-written. . . . excellent character sketches. . . vivid and moving. . . . maps and diagrams of the battles are outstanding.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Bowling Green Daily News</I></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Magnificent.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Civil War Notebook</I></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Russell S. Bonds has an impressive ability to combine combat narrative with shrewd analyses of commanders&rsquo; performances.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>James M. McPherson, author of Tried by War</I></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Using his skills as both historian and storyteller, Russell S. Bonds has given us what might have seemed impossible&mdash;a fresh, new look back at Atlanta.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South</I></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A masterpiece of prose and research, the definitive history of the struggle for Atlanta during the Civil War, an episode immortalized by the novel <I>Gone with the Wind</I>.</p></p></DIV>