The Civil War: A Narrative: Red River To Appomattox
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Remainder mark
The final thunder of cannon fire and the quiet surrender at Appomattox Court House form the dramatic backdrop of The Civil War: A Narrative — Red River to Appomattox, the concluding volume of Shelby Foote's monumental trilogy chronicling America's most devastating conflict. This third installment carries the reader from the grinding campaigns of 1864 — Sherman's relentless March to the Sea, Grant's punishing Overland Campaign, and the siege of Petersburg — through to the collapse of the Confederacy and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, presenting the war's endgame with the sweep and intimacy of a great novel. Foote, a novelist by training, brings an extraordinary literary sensibility to historical writing, weaving together the grand strategic movements of armies with the deeply human experiences of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the divide. His prose is richly textured, precise, and compulsively readable, earning the trilogy a place among the supreme achievements in American letters. Praised by critics and scholars alike, this work stands as an unparalleled portrait of a nation tearing itself apart — and one cannot finish its final pages without feeling the full, irreversible weight of history.
Author: Shelby Foote
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Random House
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Remainder mark
The final thunder of cannon fire and the quiet surrender at Appomattox Court House form the dramatic backdrop of The Civil War: A Narrative — Red River to Appomattox, the concluding volume of Shelby Foote's monumental trilogy chronicling America's most devastating conflict. This third installment carries the reader from the grinding campaigns of 1864 — Sherman's relentless March to the Sea, Grant's punishing Overland Campaign, and the siege of Petersburg — through to the collapse of the Confederacy and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, presenting the war's endgame with the sweep and intimacy of a great novel. Foote, a novelist by training, brings an extraordinary literary sensibility to historical writing, weaving together the grand strategic movements of armies with the deeply human experiences of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the divide. His prose is richly textured, precise, and compulsively readable, earning the trilogy a place among the supreme achievements in American letters. Praised by critics and scholars alike, this work stands as an unparalleled portrait of a nation tearing itself apart — and one cannot finish its final pages without feeling the full, irreversible weight of history.