The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox (Vintage Civil War Library)
By Shelby Foote.
Description
"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 "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subje...
ISBN(s)
0394746228, 9780394746227
