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The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
Shelby Foote
Vintage, 1986
The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol)
I am about half way through and find these volumes excellent. They not only address the battles fought, but also address the political climate how people from the North and the South felt about the war, their leaders etc. It is interesting to be made aware of the ...
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Stars in Their Courses : The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863
Shelby Foote
Modern Library, 1994
It's to bad Shelby is gone
It is to bad that Shelby Foote has passed from the scene. His books are riviting and historically accurate. A must read for any student of the civil war and for anyone who wants to know more about the greatest American Battle, Gettysburg.
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
Shelby Foote
Vintage, 1986
An Iliad of American agony
I read all three volumes of the great Shelby Foote's Civil War narrative in the 80s. This volume is yet another of his logically well-integrated, dramatic trio on that war and speaks a soft/loud pianoforte of war from the Southern perspective. It contains many a large ...
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Shiloh: A Novel
Shelby Foote
Vintage, 1991
Excellent historical novel
Shelby Foote's closely fact-based novel Shiloh offers what I have long searched for--unromanticized historical fiction. Beginning the day of the battle and ending the day after, Shiloh brings the reader into the thick of the action.
Shiloh is divided into eight ...
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The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volume Set)
Shelby Foote
Random House, 2006
Excellent series
Here is writing which makes history come alive. I have read other civil war books, but I would say this is bar far the best, most comprehsive books I have read. I beleive it is equal in representation of both the north and the south but there is a slight bias towards ...
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 Red River to Appomattox
Shelby Foote
Vintage, 1986
News from the Front
Shelby Foote takes the Civil War and dissects its every twist and turn in a writing style that feels as if your hearing news from the front in an ongoing war. That is a good thing since these three volumes are very hefty. This book is not for the mildly curious, you ...
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The Civil War a Narrative 3 Vols in Slipcase
Shelby Foote
Random House, 1974
Vol 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Vol 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian; Vol 3: Red River to Appomattox. Later printings of this classic work. In illustrated slipcase.
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Love in a Dry Season
Shelby Foote
Vintage, 1992
About as Dry as it Gets
This is a fascinating examination of the courtship of a well heeled spinster in a small Mississippi town. Young Shelby Foote turned down his flame a little for this one, having just been stung when told by his moonshine hunting pal and idol, William Faulkner, that he ...
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Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories
Delta, 1993
Ennui
I finished CHICKAMAUGA several days ago. Since then, I've been unable to whip-up enough mental energy to give it either an emphatic thumbs-up or thumbs-down. I guess you could say it's so-so. And writing the review approaches being a chore.
Except for the first and ...
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The Civil War: A Narrative--Fort Sumter to Perryville, Vol. 1
Shelby Foote
Vintage, 1986
North and South go at it.
Shelby Foote knows his stuff. Over 800 pages of exciting Civil War action, from the secession crisis of early 1861 to the inauguration of Mississippian Senator Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States. From Yankee disaster at First Manassas to Robert E. ...
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Follow Me Down: A Novel
Shelby Foote
Vintage, 1993
Follow Me Down is a must read.
Follow Me Down tells the story of a fifty-year old man and his wife, a love-lost young woman, a deaf and dumb young man and his mother, and a defense attorney with a chip on his shoulder. Told through the eyes of eight characters, the story revolves around a violent ...
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Shiloh
Shelby Foote
Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1996
Leather-bound with gold print & decor.
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Early Short Stories, 1883-1888 (Modern Library)
Anton Chekhov
Modern Library, 1999
...lesson one..
Marvelous is the only word to describe this first of three volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories published by the Modern Library. While the following two compilations are each superlative in their own way (thank you again, Shelby Foote), this Early Short Stories ...
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The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library)
Shelby Foote
Modern Library, 1995
Vicksburg and the Rise of U.S. Grant
"The Beleaguered City" is an extended excerpt on the Vicksburg Campaign from Shelby Foote's absolutely superb three volume narrative history of the Civil War. The Vicksburg Campaign is a gripping story in its own right, the central dramatic thread of which is Union ...
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Longer Stories from the Last Decade (Modern Library)
Anton Chekhov
Modern Library, 2000
Everything's here
Since the previous volumes of the Modern Library Chekhov were titled Early and Late (with the Late ending with his death), I had thought that they were the complete series. My review on the Later Stories actually had a small complaint that precisely these longer ...
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