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The Civil War: A Narrative
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"I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in... read more
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Fort Sumter to Perryville
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Fredericksburg to Meridian
by Shelby Foote (Author)FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN "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...
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Red River to Appomattox
by Shelby Foote (Author)A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South's defeat.
First Sentence edit
LATE AFTERNOON OF A RAW, GUSTY DAY in early spring - March 8, a Tuesday, 1864 - the desk clerk at Willard's Hotel, two blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, glanced up to find an officer accompanied by a boy of thirteen facing him across the polished oak of the registration counter and inquiring whether he could get a room.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in The Civil War: A Narrative. (standard series)
This book is in TIME Magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books. (authoritative list)
This is book 93 of 102 in National Review - 100 Best Non-fiction Books of the Century. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Darwin's Black Box, and followed by The Way the World Works (Gateway Contemporary).
Authors & Contributors edit
- Shelby Foote (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973.7
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