This book was written by Shelby Foote, published in 1974, the narrative is 290 pages and is illustrated with black and white map drawings. Shelby Foote's The Civil War is a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history, a war which lasted four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people lived through. Never before have the great battles and exciting personalities of the Civil War been so clearly, so dramatically, and so vividly presented. The word "narrative" is the key, not only to this extraordinary book's incandescence, but also to its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. The reader not only learns what was happening in the North and South, on the political, military, diplomatic, and home fronts, the reader lives through the events as if he or she were there. This is the way it was, in its entirety, as far as Shelby Foote could discover it during the years of exhaustive research. In its depth of understanding, its pulsing narrative, and its truly remarkable portrayal of personality, The Civil War: A Narrative is an authoritative achievement of monumental stature. As this volume opens, the South seems to be in ascendance, and Lincoln weighs his options. The battles of Second Manassas and Antietam further deepen the war, and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation changes the very nature of the conflict. This hard back book is in excellent condition, with a dust jacket in very good condition.

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