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| Original Title: | The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville |
| ISBN: | 0394746236 (ISBN13: 9780394746234) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Civil War #1 |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (1959) |
Shelby Foote
Paperback | Pages: 856 pages Rating: 4.43 | 10854 Users | 439 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville (The Civil War #1) |
| Author | : | Shelby Foote |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 856 pages |
| Published | : | November 12th 1986 by Vintage (first published November 12th 1958) |
| Categories | : | History. Military History. Civil War. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. American Civil War. Audiobook. War |
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac. The word "narrative" is the key to this extraordinary book's incandescence and its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research. This first volume in Shelby Foote's comprehensive history is a must-listen for anyone interested in one of the bloodiest wars in America's history.Rating Appertaining To Books The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville (The Civil War #1)
Ratings: 4.43 From 10854 Users | 439 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville (The Civil War #1)
I am transforming myself into such a history enthusiast, wonderful! I never imagined some years back that I would read a 900-pages Civil War history (and it's just the first volume of its trilogy); to understand my amazement you have to remember that I am not American. Shelby Footes excellent The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville had me enthralled all the way through the end. Reading this beautifully-written and absolutely epic history, you get a sweeping story that is comprehensivelyI suppose I'm officially anointed into the Old Man's Club now, what with my enjoyment of strong cigars, a newfound appreciation of the pleasures of my own hard-won solitude, and, the coup de grace -- a love for the history of the American Civil War.Shelby Foote's massive, much-touted behemoth on the war is now something I have the patience to tackle, savor, ruminate over, and, perhaps, return to.Indisputably a great achievement, Vol. 1 of Foote's huge, three-part, almost 3,000-page trilogy on
Extremely detailed narrative of the Civil War. Listening to the audio version of it and I really should be following more closely checking each battle out on the map as well, but I confess I'm not. I'm content with a rough visualization which may or may not be exact and probably isn't, even if this is my second or third time for reading up on some of these. Hope to return to again sometime.Well worth it. On to Volume 2!
Magnificent. Awe inspiring historical writing. As gripping a narrative as any I've found in literature. As insightful a work of strategy as any I've found in the academy. Foote shows the friction and confusion of war as well as any piece I've encountered. All that extra space enables him to take the character's stories to their full conclusion, rather than just passing off stage as their relation to the main story ends. Learning about some of the smaller, less vital campaigns was just as
I have an allergy to Shelby Foote. I care for neither his prose style nor his biased viewpoint.Many years ago, Douglas Southall Freeman, the author of Lee's Lieutenants, told his friend Clifford Dowdey (another Civil War author), that he often suppressed his real opinions about the generals in his histories. Freeman explained this was because his sources were the children and grandchildren (many of them Freeman's personal friends) of the men he wrote about in his books, and the real story of the
Fascinating and very readable and informative - think I shall leave writing a full review until I have read volumes 2 and 3 though (which may be later this year as they are even longer than this one which is over 800 pages).
I'd forgotten that I'd read this massive trilogy until I came across someone reading it yesterday. My grandfather had them and liked them, so I figured I'd try them out, and read them during my freshman and sophomore years in high school, I think. They were really interesting and very detailed portraits of all of the different personalities involved, especially the different generals involved on the Union side, and had some actually very funny anecdotes (my favorite one, though I can't remember
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