Never Call Retreat - Hardcover

Catton, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184212403X ISBN 13: 9781842124031

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, 1965

Synopsis

NY, Doubleday (1965) Book club edition of the Stated First Edition. Inscribed To S---J---- with all best wishes and signed by Bruce Catton on the dedication page. Light water stain at heel of spine and bottom page edge, headband puckered off text block at the top, else very good hardcover; clean, tight and straight. Dustjacket is rippled along the bottom, chipped and edgeworn at the head of spine, else good in removable archival mylar cover. B324

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Catton was born in 1899. As a child living in a small town in Michigan, Catton was stimulated by the reminiscences of the Civil War that he heard from local veterans. His education at Oberlin College, Ohio, was interrupted by two years of naval service in World War I and was subsequently abandoned for a career in journalism. While he was employed as a reporter for the Boston American, the Cleveland News, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer (1920-26), Catton continued his lifelong study of the Civil War period. He subsequently worked for the Newspaper Enterprise Service (1926-41) and for the U.S. War Production Board. In 1954 he became a member of the staff of American Heritage magazine, and from 1959 he served as its senior editor. A commission to write a Centennial History of the Civil War evolved into Catton's celebrated trilogy on the Army of the Potomac. Catton's brilliance as a historian lay in his ability to bring to historical narrative the immediacy of reportage. He died in 1978.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday & Company
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 184212403X
• ISBN 13: 9781842124031
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1