Landscape Turned Red

It was the most bitter and savage battle ever fought by American soldiers: the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. When the Civil War ended, soldiers who endured the fierce fighting at Shiloh, Gettysburg, and Bull Run swore that nothing compared to the battle fought at Antietam Creek. The landscape, they said, had turned red with the blood of Confederate and Union soldiers. No one knows the Civil War like Stephen W. Sears, the distinguished military historian and renowned author of To the Gates of Richmond. In this classic study of the Battle of Antietam, Sears blends impeccable research with literary grace to create a magisterial history that stands as the standard reference on the subject. Expertly weaving together suspenseful descriptions of battle, deft analysis of leaders, and eyewitness accounts from the diaries and letters of Union and Confederate soldiers, Landscape Turned Red showcases all the reasons why Ken Burns, the producer of the PBS series The CivilWar, calls Sears“one of our very best CivilWar historians.”“A fine reader, an excellent recording. American history and Civil War buffs will appreciate this.”—Library Journal