The North and South Trilogy

Two families are united—and torn apart—by the Civil War in these three dramatic novels by the #1 New York Times –bestselling master of the historical epic.  In North and South, the first volume of John Jakes’s acclaimed and sweeping saga, a friendship is threatened by the divisions of the Civil War. In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while