The Civil War: A Narrative
#2422 of 3,809 books · #799 in History
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1975).
This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis's farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America's great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote's epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel. Includes maps throughout.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- ISBN-13
- 9780307744678
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Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1975)
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