The Civil War
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Sell my copyAuthor: Shelby Foote
Title: The Civil War
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 1120
Release Date: 1986-11-12
Details: This final volume of Shelby Foote's masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic d'enouement of the war-the assassination of President Lincoln.
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"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." -Walker Percy
"To read this chronicle is an awesome and moving experience. History and literature are rarely so thoroughly combined as here; one finishes this volume convinced that no one need undertake this particular enterprise again." -Newsweek
"In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail, in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject. . . . Written in the tradition of the great historian-artists-Gibbon, Prescott, Napier, Freeman-it stands alongside the work of the best of them." -The New Republic
"The most written-about war in history has, with this completion of Shelby Foote's trilogy, been given the epic treatment it deserves." -Providence Journal
EAN: 9780394746227
Package Dimensions: Height: 9.24 Inches, Length: 6.36 Inches, Weight: 3.15 Pounds, Width: 2.15 Inches
