Focused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War.
Includes maps throughout.
"This, then, is narrative history a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." The Washington Post Book World
" Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a...

This final volume of Shelby Foote s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic denouement of the war the assassination of President Lincoln.
Features maps throughout.

"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." Walker Percy
To read this chronicle is an awesome and moving experience. History and literature are rarely so thoroughly combined as here; one finishes this...

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.
"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters." Van Allen Bradley,...