The Civil War by Geoffrey C Ward

The Civil War by Geoffrey C Ward

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

When the illustrated edition of The Civil War was first published, The New York Time hailed it as a treasure for the eye and mind. 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.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780679755432
ISBN 10	0679755438
Title	The Civil War
Author	Geoffrey C Ward
Series	Vintage Civil War Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1994-09-06
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Winner of Lincoln Prize 1991
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.