ISBN10: 0394746236, ISBN13: 9780394746234, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group] Softcover Shelby Foote was an American historian and novelist.&#160 He was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a captain of field artill.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1986]
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ISBN10: 0394746236, ISBN13: 9780394746234, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1986-11-12, New York] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1986]

ISBN10: 0394746236, ISBN13: 9780394746234, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover First Edition Paperback. This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Daviss farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of Americas great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Footes epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel. Includes maps throughout. "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narrativesa unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters."Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News "A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War, and at the same time a narrative of unflagging power. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else." Burke Davis "To read this great narrative is to love the nationto love it through the living knowledge of its mortal division. Whitman, who ultimately knew and loved the bravery and frailty of the soldiers, observed that the real Civil War would never be written and perhaps should not be. For me, Shelby Foote has written it. This work was done to last forever." James M. Cox, Southern Review Originally published: New York: Random House, 1958. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US ...