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Chickamauga by Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote's monumental historical trilogy, The Civil War: A Narrative, is our window into the day-by-day unfolding of our nation's defining event. Now Foote reveals the deeper human truth behind the battles and speeches through the fiction he has chosen for this vivid, moving collection.These ten stories of the Civil War give us the experience of joining a coachload of whores left on a siding during a battle in Virginia . . .marching into an old man's house to tell him it's about to be burned down . . .or seeing a childhood friend shot down at Chickamauga.
The result is history that lives again in our imagination, as the creative vision of these great writers touches our emotions and makes us witness to the human tragedy of this war, fought so bravely by those in blue and gray.
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 | 9780385311007 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385311001 |
| Title | Chickamauga |
| Author | Shelby Foote |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1993-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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