Shiloh by Shelby Foote

Shiloh by Shelby Foote

This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history, from Shelby Foote, beloved historian of the Civil War.  Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but the inner movements of the combatants' hearts and minds.  Through the eyes of officers and illiterate foot soldiers, heroes and cowards, Shiloh creates a dramatic mosaic of a critical moment in the making of America, complete to the haze of gunsmoke and the stunned expression in the eyes of dying men.
 
Shiloh, which was hailed by The New York Times as "imaginative, powerful, filled with precise visual details...a brilliant book" fulfills the standard set by Shelby Foote's monumental three-part chronical of the Civil War.

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	9780679735427
ISBN 10	0679735429
Title	Shiloh
Author	Shelby Foote
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1991-04-09
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.