Bas Kreuger's Reviews > Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

Flood has a gift to write both factually interesting and emotionally gripping.
The book almost reads like a novel and Grant and Sherman appear in the lines somewhat larger than life. Their friendship, supporting each other almost unconditionally during the whole of the Civil War, forms them in an unbeatable team on the Union side.
Not being specially well versed in American history, it is an incredible story how both men were more or less down and out before the war and four years later were the defining characters of the war.
What strikes me most, apart from their successes in battle, is their modesty, certainly Grant, whom power does not seem to corrupt him.
The description of the victory parade through Washington, shortly after the assasination of Lincoln, is a very moving end of the book. When you close your eyes, you can see, smell and hear the thousands of men marching over Pennsylvania Avenue.