The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
by:
Shelby Foote (author)
"This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." —The Washington Post Book World "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain,...
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"This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." —The Washington Post Book World "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better." —Atlantic"Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times, they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." —The New York Times Book Review"The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." —Walter Mills
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394746210 (039474621X)
ASIN: 039474621X
Publish date: November 12th 1986
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 976
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
American,
War,
Military,
American History,
19th Century,
Military History,
Civil War,
American Civil War
Series: The Civil War (#2)
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...