As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil Wars 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nations bloodiest conflict. MacKinlay KantorsAndersonvilletells the story of the notorious Confederate Prisoner of War camp, where fifty thousand Union soldiers were held captiveand fourteen thousand diedunder inhumane conditions. This new edition will be widely read and talked about by Civil War buffs and readers of gripping historical fiction.