Description: The Civil War A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote, 1958. Volume 1 of the Narrative Set. Book has discoloration on spine and less on cover. No damage to book, dust cover or pages. Probably due to storage. Please look at all pictures as I've tried to show the condition. Smoke free home. Thank you for looking. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac. The word "narrative" is the key to this extraordinary book's incandescence and its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research. This first volume in Shelby Foote's comprehensive history is a must-listen for anyone interested in one of the bloodiest wars in America's history. Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, writing a massive, three-volume history of the war entitled The Civil War: A Narrative. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his career until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives."
Price: 24.5 USD
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Binding: Hardcover
Signed: No
Publisher: Random House
Subject: Military & War
Modified Item: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1958
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Author: Shelby Foote
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Topic: Civil War (1861-65)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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