Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes:
Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox.
Collected together in a handsome boxed set, this is the perfect gift for any Civil
War buff.
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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