"One of the most riveting war stories I have ever read….Huffman's smooth, intimate prose ushers you through this nightmare as if you were living it yourself."
-Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
The dramatic true story of the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, Alan Huffman's Sultana brings to breathtaking life a tragic, long forgotten event in America's Civil War-the sinking of the steamship Sultana and the loss of 1,700 lives, mostly Union soldiers returning home from Confederate prison camps. A gripping account that reads like a nonfiction Cold Mountain, Sultana is powerful, moving, rich in irony and fascinating historical detail-a story no history aficionado or Civil War buff will want to miss.
