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I think that there's pretty much a consensus that the best easily-accessible history of the Civil War is Shelby Foote's The Civil War. Catton reads well but he focuses only on the Eastern war, particularly in VA. Foote tells it all and he tells it like a novel. Catton gets a little syrupy at ... Here is what is in my library besides ones already listed. Hope you find something of interest.
The Civil War strange and Fascinating Facts Burke Davis
A Woman of Valor Clara Barton and the Civil War Stephen B. Oates
The Widow of the South Robert Hicks
The Private Mary Chest ... ... into a funk. Couldn't get started with Roy Blount's Penguin Lives Robert E. Lee. Maybe it was finally finishing The Civil War: A Narrative. Anyway I am finally going back to reading. Starting The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin tonight. The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote 20: kcs_hiker & others,
Will finish the final volume, Red River to Appomattox, of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative over the weekend. The three books have taken me all summer.
Outstanding reading experience by a gifted writer. I not only have a better understanding of the ... ... writer as Keegan.
By the way, I'm in the last 400 pages of the last of volume of Shelby Foote's massive three volume The Civil War: A Narrative. Should finish by Labor Day. Should finish Fredricksburg to Meridian, volume II of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative tonight or tommorw. Then it will be on to all 1,060 pages of volume III, Red River to Appomattox.
#50: jhowell:
Wallace Stegner is a favorite author of mine. You might be interested ... About 200 pages to go in Fredricksburg to Meridian, the second volume of Shelby Foote's massive history The Civil War: A Narrative.
Excellent and compulsive reading, just long. I plan someday to own The Civil War by Shelby Foote because he is a novelist. In today's mail there was Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson; it says on the back of the book:
The finest single volume on the war and its background.
The best one-volume treatment of the Civil War ... ... enthralling read. The only work of fiction I know with a non-fiction index.
Oh, I finally finished the first volume of The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote and I am about 70 pages into the 965 page second volume. ... Rain by Timothy Egan or Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey?
Oh, I'm still plowing my way through Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative,
I did finally get my Folio Society copy of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. One of my favorites. Still on volume one of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative. I swear if money didn't buy books, beer and movies I'd quit work.
Does anyone out there have an opinion on the works of Hannah Arendt that they would care to share? ... C. Waugh's book The Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850...and found it a good read. I am slowly reading Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative, loving it of course. Am also into Lincoln's Sword, and Lincoln and Freedom and am poised to start William Henry Seward. I have recently ... ... but The Golden Apples was just too self-consciously literary for my taste.
Started volume one of Shelby Foote's The Civil War, a narrative. Don't know if I'll read all three volumes consecutively or slip some fiction in between. An interesting hypothetical that does take some thought. Here goes
The Iliad
The Odyssey
War and Peace
The Civil War a Narrative three volumes
Robert Frost Poems, Plays, Prose
The Encyclopedia of World History
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Hammett Complete Novels
... I am just into the second chapter of book two of The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote. It is one I am having a real hard time putting down. I'm also reading Landscape Turned Red by Stephen W. Sears. I love just about anything on Lincoln and am just getting into the Civil War. If ... ... get Stoner and the others based on yours and alphaorder's recommendations.
#81, Smiley: I have two copies of Foote's The Civil War--the first one in paperback which I've read through completely 3 times and just recently purchased the hard back edition as a Christmas present for myself. Th ... No. 9 The Civil War: A Narrative Volume II 55 hours (1000 pages). This portion of the war contained a lot of the significant action. The battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg marked the real turn in the war against the Confederates. I think I am going to stop the series here for now. I feel the ... US Non-Fiction
1. A Life on the Road, Charles Kuralt 95 copies on LT
2. The Civil War, Geoffrey C. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns 426 copies
3. The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Heritage: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother, Jeff Smith 158 ... No. 8 The Civil War: A Narrative Volume 1, 40 hours (840 pages). Another audio book. I really missed the maps which are in the written edition. I have the Oxford Atlas of the Civil War and I used it extensively listening to the book. The narrator for the book is very good. Shelby Foote's ... ... up on his porch writing the book as he was slowly dying. Grant died one week after the book was finished.
Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative in three volumes provides a well written complete history of the war. The books are very well written and the lack of footnotes make them read ... New to this group. My pick for best of 2007 is easy:
Shelby Foote's masterful The Civil War: A Narrative Finished Winfield Scott Hancock, The Civil War: a Narrative vol 3, and The Marshal Makes His Report. I was a little disappointed in the last-named--IMHO, isn't as good as its immediate predecessors. I found the plot confusing, although it has a really nice twist at the end.
Started Campa ... I'll be finishing up:
The Civil War: a Narrative, vol III., a reread. The whole set is about 3000 pages, and reads like a fast-paced thriller.
Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life
The Marshal Makes His Report by Magdalen Nabb I finally finished Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative. I can't say enough wonderful things about it. What a masterpiece. What a monstrous task - and he nailed it!
Moving onto A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British 1603-1776.
... strikes. Lately I've read Jane Eyre, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, and now The Civil War: A Narrative. Other times I work my way methodically through a subject or genre. Earlier this year I was reading Arthurian literature from Geoffrey of Monmou ... I'm currently reading Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative. His epigraph (as it appears):
All these were honoured in their generations
And were the glory of their times
There be of them
That have left a name behind them
That their praises might be reported
And some there be ... Life events have kept me from making much headway in Volume 3 of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative, but I hope to get back to it soon. Sergerca will soon overtake me!
Also, I have added The Killer Angels by Michael Sharra to the "to-read" pile on my desk. This morning I began volume 3 of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative. I'm still enthralled.
My mother-in-law just gave me Gordon Rhea's The Battle of the Wilderness. Has anyone read it? ... ttlefields?
I'm a newcomer to the Civil War, currently finishing (and thoroughly enjoying) volume 1 of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative.
Thanks! I've begun The Civil War: A Narrative. I'll talk to you in July when I'm done. Speaking of Civil War- I bought Shelby Foote's complete Civil War: A Narrative. I plan to take a break from the ancient history I've been doing and do the same as stephenshapiro.
... is James M. McPherson's Pulitzer prize winning one volume Battle Cry of Freedom or Shelby Foote's three volumes The Civil War: A Narrative. Bruce Catton's eminent trilogy about the Civil War sparked an older generation's interest in the conflict.
Why the South Lost the Civil W ... ... You da man! -er - well, you know what I mean.
Now I'll whine... I sure would like my own copy of Shelby Foote's The Civil War; a Narrative. The three volumes are $25 apiece new, and that's in paperback! Older copies seem to eBay for that much, or more. Ah well.. they'll turn up at a ...
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