I'm not a big Doctorow fan but the reviews were so good I thought I should read The March. It seems outrageous to say that it's a pleasant book about Sherman's march but that's pretty much what it comes to. Expecting a bracing, frightening and complex literary account of one of the most storied military events in American history, instead I read a mild-mannered young-adult novel which didn't for a minute ring true. Read Killer Angels.