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Violence
Very heavy
Extremely graphic violence including mass starvation, death from disease, brutal guard violence, and the systemic murder of prisoners
Language
Some
Moderate period language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult references
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Profoundly heavy psychological themes around atrocity, suffering, survival, and the human capacity for systematic cruelty
What this book is about
MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a harrowing, definitive account of one of the Civil War's worst atrocities. Violence is extensive and depicts starvation, disease, brutal guards, and mass death. Adult readers who can handle difficult historical content.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Mass starvation
Prisoner atrocities
Civil War violence
Extreme historical suffering
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