The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. I)

Foote, Shelby

ISBN 10: 0394419480 / ISBN 13: 9780394419480

Edité par Random House, 1958

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1958 Random House hard cover - 1st edition 1st printing - signed by Foote on 1st blank page - no dust jacket - some staining to cover and closed page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - rare as 1st printing and rare as signed - enjoy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. I)
• Éditeur: Random House
• Date de parution: 1958
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0394419480
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780394419480
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• Signé: Signed

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Synopsis

Book by Foote Shelby

Présentation de l'éditeur

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