![]() "Been reading this book in parts for last year, as the "baseline" to my series of Civil War books. 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. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research. ![]() The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. The word “narrative” is the key to this extraordinary book’s incandescence and its truth. 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. ![]() 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. ![]()
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