The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

This is micro-battlefield history at its best."-Virginia Magazine of History & Biography

This is a rich work, vivid, and quite often simultaneously tinged with humor and horror, reflecting the complexities of such a bloody, awful, and awe-inspiring event. The Heart of Hell is a readable, balanced, and information look at Spotsylvania, with excellent maps, and is highly recommended.--NYMAS Review

The Heart of Hell offers a superb and at times graphic account of the events of May 12. . . . Wert's study elevates the fighting at the Mule Shoe beyond merely one of the many brutal engagements of the Overland campaign and succeeds in capturing Civil War combat at its very worst."-Journal of Southern History