The Civil War: A Narrative: Gettysburg to Vicksburg: Unvexed to the Sea [Volume V]

Foote, Shelby

Published by Random House, New York, 1963

About this Item

As new condition red boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page Quote from Ecclesiasticus; List of Maps, Bibliographical Note; Index; and About the Author. Illustrated with front and rear endpaper color maps and a black-and-white map frontispiece. Volume V of the first edition, first printing reprint of a nine volume set. "Shelby Foote's The Civil War is a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history - a war which laster four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people have 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 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. Gettysburg To Vicksburg: A virtuoso telling of a war on two fronts. In the West, Grant's relentless efforts against Vicksburg show Lincoln that he has at last found his killer-general. Meanwhile, Lee again invades the North and the three-day conflict at Gettysburg receives book-length attention in a masterly treatment of a key battle, not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory. And away from the battlefield, the Union and the Confederacy each face internal strife, as peace in the North is threatened by the draft riots and Davis struggles to hold on to his generals." - from the inner front jacket flap. Seller Inventory # 005085

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Civil War: A Narrative: Gettysburg to ...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition