SUMMARY: If every historian wrote like Bruce Catton, no one would read fiction. This marvelously well-told account of the final year of the Civil War marches readers from Wilderness, through Petersburg, and finally to the climax at Appomattox. The surrender scene, when Grant and Lee meet at last,
A Stillness at Appomattox
โ Scribed by Bruce Catton
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
- Year
- 2010;1990
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 333 KB
- Edition
- 1st Anchor books ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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