Shelby Foote
Birth date: November 17, 1916
Died: June 27, 2005
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The audiobook, narrated by Tom Parker (not, sadly, the author – though Mr. Parker does do a wonderful job, I just missed Shelby Foote), begins with a lengthy 1986 preface by the author in which he discusses the genesis of this, his first book, and its impact on all of his other writing. Like many, I...
I've been reading a lot of popular histories lately and more and more have become disenchanted with the kind of history book that tells a reader that a man's "heart beat faster" or "pupils flared" when to say the least, the chances the historian pulled that detail out of a diary or letter are low. A...
This is one of three volumes of a well written history of the civil war covering perspectives from both sides. I am reading these books for added research for my fifth book in the Baker family sage and I am finding them a better source of facts than all the others I read in the past - which were man...
This book is the first in a trilogy - a detailed narrative on the events of the Civil War. This book introduced the primary characters of the war, and the issues that were behind it and then covered the events from Fort Sumter to Perryville. It includes battle details, political climates, personal...
Reading [b:Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1963|44246|Stars in Their Courses The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1963|Shelby Foote|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347480594s/44246.jpg|43609], I could almost hear him speaking the words on the always mesmerizing PBS series "Th...
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