Release Date:- 1986-11-12
Reviews Counts:- 298
User Average Rating:- 4
Availability:- In Stock
Kind:- ebook
This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davisās farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of Americaās great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Footeās epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel.
Includes maps throughout.
"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narrativesā¦a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters."āVan Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News
"A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War, and at the same time a narrative of unflagging power. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else." āBurke Davis
"To read this great narrative is to love the nationāto love it through the living knowledge of its mortal division. Whitman, who ultimately knew and loved the bravery and frailty of the soldiers, observed that the real Civil War would never be written and perhaps should not be. For me, Shelby Foote has written it.... This work was done to last forever." āJames M. Cox, Southern Review