A01=Joseph Wheelan
Author_Joseph Wheelan
Category1=Non-Fiction
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ISBN13=9781586489083
Language_English
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Price=€10 to €20
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Subject=History
Subject=Warfare & Defence
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- ISBN 9781586489083
- Dimensions: 159 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 2011
- Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: New York, US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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During the winter of 1863-1864, 1,200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in Richmond's Libby Prison, known as "The Bastille of the South." On February 9, 109 of those officers wriggled through a fifty-five-foot tunnel to freedom. After an all-out Rebel manhunt, survivors reached Washington, and their testimony spurred far-reaching investigations into the treatment of Union prisoners. Libby Prison Breakout tells the largely unknown story of the most important escape of the Civil War from a Confederate prison, one that ultimately increased the North's and South's willingness to use prisoners in waging "total war."
Joseph Wheelan is the author of eight previous books, including the highly-acclaimed Terrible Swift Sword and Jefferson's War. Before turning to writing books full time, Wheelan was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press for twenty-four years. He lives in Cary, North Carolina.
