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The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volume Set)

36 reviews
Shelby Foote

Random House, 2006

The definitive Civil War history
There's a reason why you see Shelby Foote in every Civil War documentary. He's the best and these three books are evidence to back up that assertion. Besides, once you hear his Southern drawl, you won't be able to imagine a better voice for the conflict.

The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)

137 reviews
Shelby Foote

Vintage, 1986

A wonderful odyssey through a terrible time.
I was initially intimiated about the prospect of launching into just one volume of Foote's narrative and so I made the mistake of buying only the first book -- I should have bought all three volumes at the start! It takes about 50 - 100 pages to get into Foote's style of writing, and at times he turns a quirky phrase from the '60's (1860's), but this is enjoyable reading, bar none. If there was ...

Stars in Their Courses : The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863

35 reviews
Shelby Foote

Modern Library, 1994

A wonderful read, and a sincere search for truth
Imagine, if you can, a book written by a modern historian that actually seeks the truth. Imagine a book written by a modern historian that is not slanted to promote his/her politics. Imagine a 20th century historian that does not even mention the sexuality (alternative or otherwise), of any historical figures in an entire book. If you are looking for "the truth" at Gettysburg, "Stars In ...

Shiloh

30 reviews
Shelby Foote

Recorded Books, 1993

Excellent historical novel
Shelby Foote's closely fact-based novel Shiloh offers what I have long searched for--unromanticized historical fiction. Beginning the day of the battle and ending the day after, Shiloh brings the reader into the thick of the action. Shiloh is divided into eight chapters. Each chapter is narrated by a different character--and one chapter by the individual members of a twelve-man ...

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 Red River to Appomattox

5 reviews
Shelby Foote

Vintage, 1986

News from the Front
Shelby Foote takes the Civil War and dissects its every twist and turn in a writing style that feels as if your hearing news from the front in an ongoing war. That is a good thing since these three volumes are very hefty. This book is not for the mildly curious, you will get bored and overwhelmed by the dates, names and places. But to military history, history, or civil war buffs, it is as ...

The Civil War: A Narrative Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville
Shelby Foote

Random House, 1963

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 (Civil War: A Narrative)
Shelby Foote

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

In the third-and last-volume of this vivid history, Shelby Foote brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife which altered American life forever. Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the field of battle, which finally decided the fate of this nation.

The Civil War: A Narrative Second Manassas to Perryville The Sun Shines South (Volume 3)
Shelby Foote

Random House, 1974

Unvexed to the Sea :A Civil War Narrative Gettysburg to Vicksburg
Shelby Foote

Random House, 1963

The Red Badge of Courage & "The Veteran" (Modern Library Classics)

312 reviews
Stephen Crane

Modern Library, 2000

The Horrors of War engage the Innocence of Life
What can one truly say about an American Classic. It would be presumptuous on my part, at the very least, to analyze Mr. Crane's masterpiece after so many literary giants have already poked and prodded this novel of youth and war to ad nauseam. As a young boy in the early 1950s, I first read this novel and enjoyed the superficial battle narratives. Later as a college student in the 1960s, I ...

The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

3 reviews
Shelby Foote

Vintage, 1986

An Iliad of American agony
I read all three volumes of the great Shelby Foote's Civil War narrative in the 80s. This volume is yet another of his logically well-integrated, dramatic trio on that war and speaks a soft/loud pianoforte of war from the Southern perspective. It contains many a large gulp of its often hesitantly bitter, prolonged agony from the bloody cup of setbacks and disappointments on both sides of the ...

Love in a Dry Season

3 reviews
Shelby Foote

Vintage, 1992

About as Dry as it Gets
This is a fascinating examination of the courtship of a well heeled spinster in a small Mississippi town. Young Shelby Foote turned down his flame a little for this one, having just been stung when told by his moonshine hunting pal and idol, William Faulkner, that he should "try to do better" next time after finishing Follow Me Down. Following the lurid and colorful courtroom drama of that ...

Chickamauga: And Other Civil War Stories

1 review

Delta, 1993

Ennui
I finished CHICKAMAUGA several days ago. Since then, I've been unable to whip-up enough mental energy to give it either an emphatic thumbs-up or thumbs-down. I guess you could say it's so-so. And writing the review approaches being a chore. Except for the first and last chapters, which I'll get to in a moment, these stories of the Civil War come from the point of view of the common man and ...

Later Short Stories, 1888-1903 (Modern Library)

6 reviews
Anton Chekhov

Modern Library, 1999

Bloodied but unbowed
Chekhov is a master, but I almost wish he'd never existed. His prose is so deceptively simple that it will make everyone reading him, be they caterers, kids, or Senate whips, think "I can do that!" Needless to say, they can't. This doesn't mean anyone will ever stop trying. Chekhov fans the flames of megalomania in what Sartre called the "Sunday writer", dilettantes like Mathieu in The ...

The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library)

10 reviews
Shelby Foote

Modern Library, 1995

Vicksburg and the Rise of U.S. Grant
"The Beleaguered City" is an extended excerpt on the Vicksburg Campaign from Shelby Foote's absolutely superb three volume narrative history of the Civil War. The Vicksburg Campaign is a gripping story in its own right, the central dramatic thread of which is Union General U.S. Grant's struggle to capture the great Confederate citadel on the Mississippi. Grant, stubborn and taciturn, will ...

The Civil War, A Narrative, Tullahoma to Meridian, Riot and Resurgence
Shelby Foote

Random House, 1963

A sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in American History. Never before have the great battles and exciting personalities, of the great war, been so dramatically - and so vividly - presented. The story is told entirely from the view point of the people involved in it. The reader not only learns what was happening in the North and the South, on a political, military, diplomatic, and home fronts - the reader lives through the ...

The Civil War: A Narrative--Fort Sumter to Perryville, Vol. 1

22 reviews
Shelby Foote

Vintage, 1986

North and South go at it.
Shelby Foote knows his stuff. Over 800 pages of exciting Civil War action, from the secession crisis of early 1861 to the inauguration of Mississippian Senator Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States. From Yankee disaster at First Manassas to Robert E. Lee's embarrassing debut in western Virginia. From riverboat actions on the Mississippi and its tributaries, to George McClellan's ...

Tullahoma to Missionary Ridge (The Civil War, A Narrative, Volume 8)
Shelby Foote

Time-Life Books, 1999

This is volume 8 of a 14 volume set from Time-Life books. Originally published by Random House in 1963 as part of Volume 2 of the "The Civil War, A Narrative:Fredericksburg to Meridian" series. Includes bibliography, indexes.

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