- Taschenbuch: 368 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage; Auflage: Mti (6. September 1994)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679755438
- ISBN-13: 978-0679755432
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,4 x 2,1 x 20,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 397.932 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Filled with vignettes of generals, soldiers, and women on the home front, and spiced by personal accounts of battles and camp life, this book presents the war as the central defining event of American history and of the lives of those Americans caught up in it. In four separate, additional essays, professional historians briefly discuss the causes of the war, emancipation, the politics of the war, and its long-term meaning. Ward's running narrative will cause scholars to wince at his occasional hyperbole, but readers will thrill to his brisk prose, ironic sense, and eye for detail--and to the 500+ photographs studding the volume (some startling, several never before published). Intended as the companion to a nine-part PBS-TV series on the Civil War, this compelling work should command its own large audience. No book can fully capture the intensity of the war, but this volume approaches it. Highly recommended for public and college libraries. BOMC main selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/1/90.
-Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
-Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
From School Library Journal
YA-- A glowing companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series that is informative and poignant. After exhausting research in museums, libraries, and newspapers, 475 images were selected to show readers what people, places, and events looked like during this crisis that shook the foundation of American civilization. The text that accompanies these illustrations is often the voices of the men and women who lived it. Extensive use of diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts bring the world of the 1860s to life. Five Civil War historians provide essays that add a third dimension to this fascinating work. A selected bibliography that includes some of the most noted works on the Civil War and a complete index are included. The book can be used as a companion to the PBS series or as a valuable resource on its own. It should be included in all Civil War collections.
-Dolores M. Steinhauer, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
-Dolores M. Steinhauer, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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On the clear moonlit night of November 7, 1837, two hundred men, some carrying torches, surrounded a brick warehouse on the east bank of the Mississippi at Alton, Illinois. Lesen Sie die erste Seite Ausgewählte Seiten ansehen
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I have to agree with a prior reviwer in that this is a very good book for one just beginning to delve into the sad, glorious, heroic, sordid and heartbreaking tale that is the American Civil War.
This book serves as a fine outline of the beginning, prosecution and conclusion of the war. It is a slim volume so do not expect a extensive economic analysis of the conditions prior to the war, political events leading up to the war or during it; but as a brief overview of the war it is as good as it gets.
Catton is lyrical and easy to read as usual; a fine preview to his Army of the Potomac Trilogy.
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This book is very good.
But it is not the best Civil War book out there. That's James Mcpherson's Battle Cry of Freedom.
If you want a full, detailed account of the events leading up to the Civil War then Battle Cry is for you. It also does amasterful job on the economic and political circumstances of the era
Alternatively if you want a hefty account of the battles that took place then Shelby Foote's 3 volumes should be your choice. The 2nd volume with the section dealing with the Battle of Gettysburg is masterful. Foote's and McPherson's books complement each other very well.
This book is more about the people involved in the Civil War all the way from privates to statesmen.
Format:Taschenbuch
This is a great book to read if you are just beginning to learn about the Civil War. Catton, best known for his biography on Abraham Lincoln, gives an understandable basic summary of why the war started, how it progressed, and how it ended. I wish it would have gone into more detail about the strategy used, but otherwise well done.
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When Hell was Incarnate on Earth
Gepffrey Ward's narrative is a complete departure from the textbook Civil War stories that we tend to read today. Lesen Sie weiter...
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The single best book on the Civil War
This is the best book about the Civil War I have seen yet. It stands completly alone from the PBS series. Lesen Sie weiter...
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