Reflections on the Civil War
Published on 26. June 2013
248 pages
978-0-307-83331-0 (ISBN)
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Edited from tapes that the Pulitzer prize-winnng historian made before his death, this moving, informative book paints an intimate portrait of war. It's a chronicle of motives and emotions, from larger than life figures Lincoln and Lee to young John B.
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Bruce Catton
Reflections on the Civil War
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01/1981
Doubleday Books
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Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan, in 1899. A United States journalist and writer, Catton was one of America's most popular Civil War historians. He worked as a newspaperman in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and also held a position at the US Department of Commerce in 1948. Catton's bestselling book, A Stillness at Appomattox, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954. Before his death in 1978, Catton wrote a total of 10 books detailing the Civil War.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editor's Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction by E. B. Long
- One: A Moving Tide
- Two: Life in the Army
- Three: The Roads Led to Battle
- Four: The First Modern War
- Five: There Was a Young Soldier
- Six: Visions
- Notes on the Illustrations
