Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs in a race against terminal throat cancer, completing the manuscript just days before his death in 1885. The result is one of the finest military memoirs in the English language: clear, honest, and entirely free of self-aggrandisement. Grant covers his early life, the Mexican-American War, and above all the Civil War campaigns that made him the Union’s greatest general.
Mark Twain, who published the book, recognised its extraordinary quality immediately. Download the complete text as a free EPUB and read the story of the man who saved the Union, told in his own plain and powerful words.