The Civil War : an illustrated history / narrative by Geoffrey C. Ward ; based on a documentary filmscript by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns ; with contributions by Don E. Fehrenbacher ... [and others].
Edition:
1st paperback edition, Fourteenth printing.
Publisher:
Knopf,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xix, 425 pages illustrations (some color), color maps 28 cm.
Original copyright 1990; 1st pbk. ed. 1992. "The classic companion book to the beloved PBS series"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 419) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the crossroads of our being -- 1861 : a house divided ; Why the war came / by Don E. Fehrenbacher -- 1862 : Forever free ; Who freed the slaves? / by Barbara J. Fields -- 1863 : the universe of battle ; Men at war : an interview with Shelby Foote -- 1864 : most hallowed ground ; War and politics / by James M. McPherson -- 1865 : the better angels of our nature -- What the war made us / by C. Vann Woodward.
Summary:
It was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000 places--from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it and more than 600,000 men died in it. Not only the immensity of the cataclysm but the new weapons, the new standards of generalship, and the new strategies of destruction--together with the birth of photography--were to make the Civil War an event present ever since in the American consciousness. Thousands of books have been written about it. Yet there has never been a history of the Civil War quite like this one.
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