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Автор MacKinlay Kantor

A PLUME BOOK

ANDERSONVILLE

MACKINLAY KANTOR was one of this country’s most distinguished authors. He wrote more than thirty books, including the original story for the Academy Award–winning film The Best Years of Our Lives. He planned the writing of Andersonville, his masterwork, for twenty-five years. He died in 1977.

“The best Civil War novel I have ever read, without any question. ”

—Bruce Catton, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, Chicago Tribune

“A great book, perhaps the greatest of all Civil War novels. ”

Chicago Sun-Times

“Will give Civil War buffs their greatest hour since Gone with the Wind. ”

Time

“Kantor’s finest .  .  . Its compelling and crucial moods of tragedy, suffering, and heroism .  .  . make it one of the most moving novels of our time. ”

Saturday Review

Chart showing approximate location of various points and areas at Andersonville.

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First published in the United States of America by The World Publishing Company 1955

Published by Plume, an imprint of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. 1993

This edition published 2015

Copyright © 1955 by MacKinlay Kantor

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904-1977

Andersonville / MacKinlay Kantor.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-0-698-18822-8

1. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Prisoners and prisons—Fiction. 2. Andersonville Prison—Fiction. 3. Andersonville (Ga. )—Fiction. 4. Prisoners of war—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3521. A47A7 2015

813'. 54—dc23

2015005345

Cover design and illustration: Jim Tierney

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CONTENTS

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Chapter XXI

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIV

Chapter XXV

Chapter XXVI

Chapter XXVII

Chapter XXVIII

Chapter XXIX

Chapter XXX

Chapter XXXI

Chapter XXXII

Chapter XXXIII

Chapter XXXIV

Chapter XXXV

Chapter XXXVI

Chapter XXXVII

Chapter XXXVIII

Chapter XXXIX

Chapter XL

Chapter XLI

Chapter XLII

Chapter XLIII

Chapter XLIV

Chapter XLV

Chapter XLVI

Chapter XLVII

Chapter XLVIII

Chapter XLIX

Chapter L

Chapter LI

Chapter LII

Chapter LIII

Chapter LIV

Chapter LV

Chapter LVI

Chapter LVII

Chapter LVIII

Chapter LIX