![]() This work was done to last forever." -James M. Whitman, who ultimately knew and loved the bravery and frailty of the soldiers, observed that the real Civil War would never be written and perhaps should not be. ![]() "To read this great narrative is to love the nation-to love it through the living knowledge of its mortal division. Although previously known as a novelist, Foote is most famous for this non-fictional narrative history. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else." -Burke Davis The first of three volumes- and this one five years in the writing- this bids fair to be a definitive history within the limitations. The Civil War: A Narrative (19581974) is a three volume, 2,968-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote. "A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War, and at the same time a narrative of unflagging power. "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives…a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters."-Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News ![]() Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote’s epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel. This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear. ![]()
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