Focused on the pivotal year of 1863; the second volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War. Includes maps throughout. "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 " 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
#105020 in Books W. W. Norton Company 2013-10-24 2013-10-24Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 10.80 x .60 x 9.00l; 1.75 #File Name: 039392212X408 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy JenksGreat Price and condition for college use.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Very good textbookBy Taylor BrieseI am currently very much enjoying this textbook. It has a very good amount of primary sources and the text is interesting. While there is a lot of material that it covers it does it so in an interesting manner!0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The book itself was in good condition; and not torn up at allBy CustomerThe book itself was in good condition; and not torn up at all. The only thing i need to critique is the over use of underlining in the book especially since it's very sloppy. There are some pen smudges in it. I understand it is used; but it is a little too used on the inside.
