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The Civil War - A Narrative, Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Library Edition)
The Civil War A Narrative Volume 1 Fort Sumter to Perryville - Library Edition Author:Shelby Foote One of the National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century Here begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, 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... more » 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. It is a narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South's defeat.« less