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The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 3
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The final work in this series begins in December of 1862. Four months before, the Union Army tasted long-awaited victory at the bloody battle of Antietam. Grant continued on towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. The grim battles that lay ahead would be costly: the Vicksburg campaign, Chattanooga, the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea, the siege of Petersburg. There would be two and a half more years of war before Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, followed by Lincoln’s death just six days later.
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- De David Wardell en 05-12-15
De: Michael Korda
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William Tecumseh Sherman
- In the Service of My Country: A Life
- De: James Lee McDonough
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 28 h y 32 m
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General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family.
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Very Fair and Balanced View of Sherman
- De Nostromo en 12-02-16
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Tried by War
- Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
- De: James M. McPherson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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As we approach the bicentennial of Lincoln'sbirth in 2009, this work provides a genuinely novel, even timely, view of the most written about figure in our history. Tried by War offers a revelatory portrait of leadership during the greatest crisis our nation has ever endured. How Lincoln overcame feckless generals, fickle public opinion, and his own paralyzing fears is a story at once suspenseful and inspiring.
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Fantastic Read
- De Chris Morin en 03-21-17
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Revolutionary
- George Washington at War
- De: Robert L. O'Connell
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, defined the American character.
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Interesting
- De Shielding C en 06-25-22
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Crucible of Command
- Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - the War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
- De: William C. Davis
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 21 h y 59 m
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They met in person only four times, yet these two men determined the outcome of the Civil War and cast competing styles for the reunited nation. Each the subject of innumerable biographies, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. Exploring their personalities, their character, and their ethical, moral, political, and military worlds, William C. Davis finds surprising similarities between the two men.
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Plutarch looks at Grant and Lee ...
- De Orson en 02-24-15
De: William C. Davis
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A Savage War
- A Military History of the Civil War
- De: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 24 h y 1 m
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.
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A Book about Conclusions
- De Terry Masters en 10-18-17
De: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, y otros
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Rise to Greatness
- Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year
- De: David Von Drehle
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 1 m
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As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union’s top general was gravely ill. The Confederacy - with its booming economy, expert military leadership, and commanding position on the battlefield - had a clear view to victory. To a remarkable extent, the survival of the country depended on the judgment, cunning, and resilience of the unschooled frontier lawyer who had recently been elected president. Twelve months later, the Civil War had become a cataclysm but the tide had turned.
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Excellent Deep Dive into 1862
- De Bubba Smith en 01-13-16
De: David Von Drehle
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The Man Who Saved the Union
- Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 27 h y 51 m
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Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands' sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right.
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Underrated hero
- De Tad Davis en 12-22-12
De: H. W. Brands
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American General
- The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman
- De: John S.D. Eisenhower
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general". Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character. A century and a half after the Civil War, Sherman remains one of its most controversial figures...
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War is Hell?
- De Sandra en 03-27-15
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Grant and Sherman
- The Friendship That Won the Civil War
- De: Charles Bracelen Flood
- Narrado por: Charles Bracelen Flood
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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"We were as brothers," William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.
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Superb History
- De Brad LaMorgese en 01-24-11
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Lee
- A Biography
- De: Clifford Dowdey
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 33 h y 47 m
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General Robert E. Lee is well known as a major figure in the Civil War. However, by removing Lee from the delimiting frame of the Civil War and placing him in the context of the Republic's total history, Dowdey shows the "eternal relevance" of this tragic figure to the American heritage. With access to hundreds of personal letters, Dowdey brings fresh insights into Lee's background and personal relationships and examines the factors which made Lee that rare specimen, a "complete person."
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- De Rodney en 08-16-17
De: Clifford Dowdey
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Still one of the best!
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A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan.
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A Worse Place than Hell
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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country's law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.
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Fantastic Intertwining!
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Combat: The Civil War
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There are many, many studies of the Civil War. Books have been written on its economic effects, its political causes, its relationship to western expansion. But the real fascination of the war is the story of combat, men in battle. Combat: The Civil War tells this story in the words of men who actually marched into battle. We share their experiences, their fears, and their moments of bravery at Vicksburg, on board the Monitor, at Gettysburg, and at the bloody battle of Antietam. These eyewitness accounts are interspersed with brief commentaries by some of our most respected historians....
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Could Have Been Better
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Riveting history with a great narration
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This Hallowed Ground
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Very poor reader with great material
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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country's law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.
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Fantastic Intertwining!
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Combat: The Civil War
- De: Don Congdon, Bruce Catton
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Riveting history with a great narration
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The J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois and associate editor of North and South magazine, Bruce Levine presents a gripping chronicle of the cultural and economic upheaval the South experienced during and after the Civil War. Drawing upon a treasure trove of diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and government documents, Levine offers a unique perspective on the old South's demise through the voices of those who lived through the conflict.
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Merely ok. . .
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A Savage War
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.
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A Book about Conclusions
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De: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, y otros
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A People’s History of the Civil War
- Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
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Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illuminated with little-known anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this path-breaking narrative moves beyond presidents and generals to tell a new and powerful story about America's most destructive conflict.
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There’s things here you didn’t know
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For generations of Americans, the word Antietam - the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland - held the same sense of horror and carnage that the date 9/11 does for Americans today. But Antietam eclipses even this modern tragedy as America's single bloodiest day, on which 22,000 men became casualties in a war to determine our nation's future.
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Mortally wounded in battle when he was only 31, the dashing J. E. B. Stuart, the South's "plumed warrior knight", stands with Stonewall Jackson as one of the Confederacy's most revered martyrs. Union General John Sedgwick called him "the greatest cavalryman ever foaled in America". Jeffry D. Wert, however, offers a more balanced assessment in this comprehensive biography.
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Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
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Voices from the Confederacy
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They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy. In it, you will learn about the heroic, the scoundrels, the clever, the vanquished, and the hungry. Rich or poor, black or white, Voices from the Confederacy shares hundreds of poignant and revealing moments during the war between the states.
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The War After the War
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The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries battled with these coalitions and won the Southern Civil War, successfully overthrowing democratically elected governments.
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very thought provoking.
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Gettysburg
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The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of battle—even on single charges—or on the daily lives of the soldiers. In Gettysburg Sears tells the whole story in a single volume.
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A Fresh Analysis of The Most Examined Battle in US History
- De Dana D. en 07-30-24
De: Stephen W. Sears
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The Battle of Gettysburg
- American Heritage Series
- De: Bruce Catton
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 3 h y 4 m
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From the opening shots to General George Pickett's ill-fated charge, Bruce Catton tells the dramatic story of the battle that resulted in more than 51,000 Union and Confederate casualties and changed the course of the war.
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A very good, short narrative
- De Carl E. Koller Lucio en 02-23-18
De: Bruce Catton
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Pickett's Charge
- A New Look at Gettysburg's Final Attack
- De: Phillip Thomas Tucker PhD
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
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Pickett's Charge is a detailed analysis of one of the most iconic and defining events in American history. This book presents a much-needed fresh look, including the unvarnished truths and ugly realities, about the unforgettable story. With the luxury of hindsight, historians have long denounced the folly of Lee's attack, but this work reveals the tactical brilliance of a master plan that went awry. Special emphasis is placed on the common soldiers on both sides, especially the non-Virginia attackers outside of Pickett's Virginia Division.
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Worst CW book ever. Can't rate it low enough. It deserves negative 5 stars in all categories
- De rbergen en 05-10-18
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
- De: William T. Sherman
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 34 h y 51 m
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First published in 1875, General William T. Sherman's memoir was one of the first from the Civil War and was offered to the public because, as Sherman wrote in his dedication, "no satisfactory history" of the war was yet available. Although Memoirs has been revised and corrected many times over the years, Sherman famously never changed the original text of his recollections.
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Not for a beginner.
- De Black Knight en 05-20-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Never Call Retreat
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The Final Phase and What It Means
This is the third volume of Bruce Catton's centennial history of the Civil War. Starting in December of 1862 with the Union disaster at Fredricksberg to Lee's surrender at Appomatox Courthouse and Lincoln's assassination 6 days later, Mr. Catton weaves together the threads of all the different theaters of the war.
Mr. Catton was actually born in 1899 and as he was growing up he talk to people who had actually served in the war. He has a deep understanding of the sacrifices that the war placed on those who served and those who were at home. He combines this with a masterful skill at story telling to produce a wonderful history of the defining moment of 19th century America.
And his focus is not just on the tremendous battles of the time, but also how President Lincoln had to deal with the politics of winning the war and putting together plans for reconstructing the country once it was apparent that the Union was going to prevail.
You will be astonished at how quickly this book is finished. I highly recommend it.
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- JoePutz555
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Civil War Classes Should Require this Book
This book provides a balanced history of the American Civil War. It should be the first go-to text for anyone wanting to understand the conflict. If there was any complaint I have at all, it would be that in describing military operations, sometimes, soldiers become statistics. Other than that, this/these is the best (3) CW book(s) I have read.
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It's Message Still Relevant Today, Perhaps More-so
This 3 volume work is a masterpiece. Given today's political climate, it should be required reading for high school every student. We must never forget the sacrifice and waste caused by political zealots. Catton's masterwork brings the reality of war and its consequences to life in a way few authors have been able to duplicate. Read just after the presidential election of 2016, it reinforced the notion that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
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the best history of the Civil War I have read. it should be required reading for history classes.
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Excellent series this 3rd of Cotton's series beginning with the Coming Fury. Listening gives a whole new meaning and context of the Civil War.
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- Elizabeth
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I have read many books on the Civil War and am somewhat of an amateur regarding its history. However, I found the Centennial Series by Catton informative. It added a perspective of the first 100 years after the war. One of the more interesting aspects of the Series was that it was relatively unbiased unlike some of the more modern histories.
The narration was good and ran at a good pace.
I tend to listen to most of my audiobooks 2 or 3 times or more and this I will definitely listen to the 3 books in this Series again.
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- J.B.
- 11-28-17
Why the North Won; Economic Power
Never Call Retreat, The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 3, written by Bruce Catton, and narrated by: Nelson Runger. This compilation is a mid-1960s, deep and rewarding dive into the pre, contemporary and post-civil war strategy milieu. In this, the third part of the three-book series, Mr. Catton provides an understanding of the Civil War, as its inevitable outcome became obvious, i.e. a Northern victory. Also explained is the war’s objectified purpose, its initial fruitless battles and how attrition brought about the war’s end, and finally why the Civil War ended as it did.
This third book is an understanding of how the generals conceived of, prepared for and managed their battles. As such, this is the story of how Ulysses.S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman proved superior generals and how they became the Union’s war savers.
Most interesting here is how the obvious genius of Abraham Lincoln is portrayed; a man perceived as nothing much by his political contemporaries, yet, who proves to be a shrewd and insightful patriot of our nation and its laws.
Another major theme in this edition is the question of whether to provide emancipation. Not a simple concept in the 1860s. The complexity of the issues faced by the North were interesting. Yet, what was horrifying is that the debate seems never to involve the consideration that Blacks, are one in the same humankind, with the rest of the nation. Frightening to think we as a nation were so ignorant and held these unfounded prejudices.
Finally, this book teaches us about the futility of the battles that were fought attempting to bring about a win or avoid a war loss. Most battles ended in no resolution and too many deaths.
There are two superior ossuaries on the civil war. This three-book series and Shelby Foote’s comparative three book tombs, on the Civil War. Here you learn more of the politics. In Mr. Foote’s magnificent study, you learn of the war and its battles. Read either, read both. I think Shelby Foote’s is the far superior read and study. That is not to say this telling is not good; just not as good. Herodotus initiated humanity into the benefit of studying history. These two men, Catton and Foote, are the penultimate writers of history.
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- Constance C.
- 01-29-23
The Civil War
I really enjoyed listening to this trilogy by Bruce Catton. It was easy to follow all the events of that time period, and to get a better understanding of the Civil War and the tremendous toil it took on our country.
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- An Amazon Customer
- 04-27-17
FANTASTIC
This is the third and final volume of Catton's narrative history of the American Civil War, and it is as fantastic as the first two volumes. Catton weaves a rich fabric of military, political and cultural facts and insights, drawing on a wide variety of records, documents, reports and other writings left by the War's participants and contemporaries, to present an insightful and highly engaging picture of the war and the United States and the American people that were so violently transformed by it .
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- Joshua Mitnick
- 10-20-20
Learned Something New at Every Point
The best thing I can say about a book, especially a piece of non-fiction about one of the most studied events in history, is that I learned new things from it.
Bruce Catton achieves this at just about every point in the narrative, with every battle from Stones River to Cold Harbor recreated in engaging and illuminating detail.
Catton also provides precise and provoking insight into the minds of the politicians and leaders whose decisions shaped the course of the Civil War.
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