"A higher education version of Elizabeth R. Varon's book, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War"-- This is not a traditional story of North versus South but rather a story of North and South versus the Confederacy. Running alongside this revisionist narrative in Armies of Deliverance is a more-or-less straightforward political and military history of the Civil War, done very well. Varon creates thrilling set pieces of all the familiar battles and controversies.