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Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War By Elizabeth R. Varon, Oxford University Press 2013, $27.95 Wars, as Thucydides observed, are driven by fear, honor and interest. Consequently, as Americans have painfully learned over the past decade, bringing them to a close can be a tricky business. Political differences so …
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