{"product_id":"the-civil-war-a-narrative-volume-1-fort-sumter-to-perryville-paperback","title":"The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote's epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Includes maps throughout. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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, \u003ci\u003eChicago Daily News \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else.\" --Burke Davis \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"To read this great narrative is to love the nation--to love it through the living knowledge of its mortal division. 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 \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c\/i\u003e not be. For me, Shelby Foote has written it.... This work was done to last forever.\" --James M. Cox, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFORT SUMTER TO PERRYVILLE \u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366008127711,"sku":"9780394746234","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MM7KP_e-eH9780394746234.webp?v=1789077293","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-civil-war-a-narrative-volume-1-fort-sumter-to-perryville-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}