Two Pulitzer Prize Winners, Battle Cry of Freedom and Gulag: A History

📘 Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
By James M. McPherson | Oxford History of the United States

• Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the American Civil War
  
  

• A sweeping narrative covering politics, military campaigns, and social change
  
  

• Richly detailed with scholarly precision and narrative drive
  
  

• Considered one of the best one-volume histories of the Civil War
  
  

📕 Gulag: A History
By Anne Applebaum | Penguin Books

• Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
  
  

• A definitive and deeply researched account of the Soviet forced labor camp system
  
  

• Combines survivor testimony, archival material, and historical analysis
  
  

• Described as "important and moving… a terrifying and unforgettable story" (Antony Beevor)