The Civil War: a Narrative by Shelby Foote

The Civil War: a Narrative by Shelby Foote

Here begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, but so are the smaller ones: Balls Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac.
The word narrative is the key to this extraordinary books 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.

Shelby Foote was an American novelist and historian. He was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on November 7, 1916, and attended school there until enrolling at the University of North Carolina. He was a captain of field artillery during WWII, but he never saw battle. He temporarily worked for the Associated Press in their New York bureau after WWII. He moved to Memphis in 1953 and remained there for the rest of his life.

Tournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan County, and September, September were among Foote's six novels. He is most known for writing The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history that took him twenty years to complete and earned him a spot as a featured expert in Ken Burns' blockbuster PBS documentary The Civil War. Foote was also the recipient of three Guggenheim fellowships during his writing career. Shelby Foote died at the age of 88 in 2005.

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ISBN 13	9780394419480
ISBN 10	0394419480
Title	The Civil War: a Narrative
Author	Shelby Foote
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1958-11-12
Number of pages	848
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