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Fort Sumter to Perryville
"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters." —Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News
"Anyone who wants to relive the Civil War, as thousands of Americans apparently do, will go through this volume with pleasure.... Years from now, Foote's monumental narrative most likely will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind." —New York Herald Tribune Book Review
Fredericksburg to Meridian
"This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." —The Washington Post Book World
"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be bettered." —Atlantic
Red River to Appomattox
"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 subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them." —New Republic
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
just 200 pages left to read of Volume 3.,
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This review is from: The Civil War, 3-Volume Box Set (Hardcover)
I've read several dozens books on the US Civil War over the years and this 3 volume set is the best I have ever read.I disagree with those who have suggested the set doesn't speak of African American troops. There are numerous military mentions, a good deal about slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment as well. I also disagree with those who suggest that Foote was more critical of Union officers than Confederate officers. I've spent every night of the last two months reading the set and have found that it is really hard to put down to sleep. Perhaps Foote's style of writing isn't for everyone, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. A toast to the life and work of the late Shelby Foote.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Certainly, this is a,
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This review is from: Civil War Volumes 1-3 Box Set (Paperback)
No doubt about it, if you really want to know about the Civil War, you can't ignore Shelby Foote's tome. I agree with several other reviewers, however, that this is "nuts and bolts" about each and every battle which will tickle the fancy of those interested in knowing them. But for all the gazillions of pages and (obviously) years of work Shelby Foote put into this unequaled effort, there isn't as much as I had expected about the politcal and social aspects of the war. Structure is too often a problem. Not only, as a previous reviewer notes, are there references to details mentioned once 400 pages earlier, but keeping track of Foote's ideas is difficult even in single sentences. He is, undoubtedly, the master of "nesting" several subjects into one l-o-n-g sentence. He will start out with a subject, then add necessary information to that subject after starting out to talk about it (rather than before), and then, eventually, many "commas" later, gets back to saying what he originally set out to say about the original subject -- which makes you go back and re-read the whole sentence (sometimes paragraph) over and over again so you can follow the flow. (This sentence is a mild example!) This sort of "super-digression," although grammatically correct, gets to be a chore. Foote's work is written with obvious sympathy for the South, while, at the same time, is careful not to understate the legitimacy of the North's cause. Not much about how the South won the peace even though they lost the war. Andersonville isn't mentioned except at the very end, and only in passing when a reference is made to its commanding officer. The message Foote sends is that he was wrongly executed. Regarding books about the Civil War, I am a bigger fan of McPherson's work (Battle Cry Freedom) for several reasons. But if you really want to immerse yourself in the details of the battles, and if you really want to experience the impact of just about each of the 600,000 lives lost, and you want to learn how deep the "peculiar institution" was ingrained within a people, so much so that even the loss of so many lives would not result in any definitive change in that way of life (which explains in part why there was another 100 years tacked on to the war after the shooting stopped), don't miss reading Shelby Foote!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Shelby Foote's Civil War, 3 Volume Set,
This review is from: The Civil War, 3-Volume Box Set (Hardcover)
Shelby Foote's 3 volume history is very readable, in spite of being a massive 3 volume set. His perspective is derived from the Southern point of view, and it reveals another side of this bloody conflict, which is both refreshing and fascinating. As a civil war buff, and an historian, I find that Foote is a very thorough researcher, and addresses the conflict of historical opinion in an evenly balanced format.
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