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Author: Geoffrey C. Ward Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307555151 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
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Based on the celebrated PBS television series about the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood—the complete text of the magisterial illustrated work of history that The New York Times hailed as "a treasure for the eye and mind." "The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing." —Shelby Foote, from The Civil War Now Geoffrey Ward's magisterial work of history is available in a text-only edition that interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood: not just Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Robert E. Lee, but genteel Southern ladies and escaped slaves, cavalry officers and common foot soldiers who fought in Yankee blue and Rebel gray. The Civil War also includes essays by our most distinguished historians of the era: Don E. Fehrenbacher, on the war's origins; Barbara J. Fields, on the freeing of the slaves; Shelby Foote, on the war's soldiers and commanders; James M. McPherson, on the political dimensions of the struggle; and C. Vann Woodward, assessing the America that emerged from the war's ashes.
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307555151 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
Book Description
Based on the celebrated PBS television series about the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood—the complete text of the magisterial illustrated work of history that The New York Times hailed as "a treasure for the eye and mind." "The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing." —Shelby Foote, from The Civil War Now Geoffrey Ward's magisterial work of history is available in a text-only edition that interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood: not just Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Robert E. Lee, but genteel Southern ladies and escaped slaves, cavalry officers and common foot soldiers who fought in Yankee blue and Rebel gray. The Civil War also includes essays by our most distinguished historians of the era: Don E. Fehrenbacher, on the war's origins; Barbara J. Fields, on the freeing of the slaves; Shelby Foote, on the war's soldiers and commanders; James M. McPherson, on the political dimensions of the struggle; and C. Vann Woodward, assessing the America that emerged from the war's ashes.
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1874
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This eBook collection has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide The Rock of Chickamauga: A Story of the Western Crisis The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand The Tree of Appomattox: A Story of the Civil War's Close
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1874
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This eBook collection has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide The Rock of Chickamauga: A Story of the Western Crisis The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand The Tree of Appomattox: A Story of the Civil War's Close
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: 8027303265 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1874
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Civil War Series" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide The Rock of Chickamauga: A Story of the Western Crisis The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand The Tree of Appomattox: A Story of the Civil War's Close
Author: Shelby Foote Publisher: ISBN: 0679643702 Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Modern Library publishes Shelby Foote’s three-volume masterpiece in a new boxed set including three hardcovers and a new trade paperback,American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic Civil War: A Narrative,edited by and with an introduction from Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and including essays by Michael Beschloss, Ken Burns, Annette Gordon-Reed, and others. Random House publisher Bennett Cerf commissioned southern novelist Shelby Foote to write a short, one-volume history of the American Civil War. Thirty years and a million and a half words later—every word having been written out longhand with nib pens dipped into ink—Foote published the third and final volume of what has become the classic narrative of that epic war. As he approached the end of the final volume, Foote recounted this scene in a letter to his friend, the novelist Walker Percy: “I killed Lincoln last week—Saturday, at noon. While I was doing it (he had his chest arched up, holding his last breath to let it out) some halfassed doctor came to the door with vols I and II under his arm, wanting me to autograph them for his son for Xmas. I was in such a state of shock, I not only let him in; I even signed the goddam books, a thing I seldom do. Then I turned back and killed him and had Stanton say, ‘Now he belongs to the ages.’ A strange feeling, though. I have another 70-odd pages to go, and I have a fear they’ll be like Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Christ, what a man. It’s been a great thing getting to know him as he was, rather than as he has come to be—a sort of TV image of himself, with a ghost alongside.” When Percy read the final book, he wrote to Foote: “It’s a noble work. I’m still staggered by the size of the achievement. . . . It isThe Iliad.” A selection of these letters, along with essays by Jon Meacham, Michael Beschloss, Ken Burns, Annette Gordon-Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Julia Reed, Robert Loomis, Donald Graham, John M. McCardell, Jr., and Jay Tolson, are included inAmerican Homer,the bonus paperback book available only in the Modern Library boxed set ofThe Civil War. Shelby Foote’s tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history—a war that lasted four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people have ever lived through—begins with Jefferson Davis’s resignation from the United States Senate and Abraham Lincoln’s departure from Springfield for the national capital. It is these two leaders, whose lives continually touch on the great chain of events throughout the story, who are only the first of scores of exciting personalities that in effect makeThe Civil Wara multiple biography set against the crisis of an age. Four years later, Lincoln’s second inaugural sets the seal, invoking “charity for all” on the Eve of Five Forks and the Grant-Lee race for Appomattox. Here is the dust and stench of war, a sort of Twilight of the Gods. The epilogue is Lincoln in his grave, and Davis in his postwar existence—“Lucifer in Starlight.” So ends a unique achievement—already recognized as one of the finest histories ever fashioned by an American—a narrative that re-creates on a vast and brilliant canvas the events and personalities of an American epic: the Civil War.
Author: James Reasoner Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing ISBN: 9781581822137 Category : Brannon family (Fictitious characters) Languages : en Pages : 0
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A Civil War novel on Will Brannon, a sheriff in Virginia who has made many enemies among outlaws. When he joins the Confederate Army, the outlaws pursue him, hoping to murder him and make it look a battlefield death.
Author: James Reasoner Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing ISBN: 9781581823813 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 412
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As the two eldest Bannon sons, Will and Mac, see action during the Battle of Gettysburg, their family awaits word of the fate of their two sons as rumors spreads about the large number of casualties.
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Author: Shelby Foote
Author: Thomas A. Durwood
Author: JAMES. REASONER
Author: James Reasoner
Author: Time-Life Books
Author: James Reasoner