“This comprehensively researched well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee’s triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862. . . . Lee’s strategic skills and the capabilities of his principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson brought the Confederates onto the field of Second Manassas at the right places and times against a Union army that knew how to fight but not yet how to win.”—Publishers Weekly