Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War - Softcover

Bearss, Edwin C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1426200935 ISBN 13: 9781426200939

Verlag: National Geographic, 2007

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Book by Bearss Edwin C

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"Every epic deserves a Homer. In Ed Bearss, the Civil War may have finally gotten one." --The Washington Times "[Bearss] evokes almost hallucinatory sensations on the battlefield" --The Wall Street Journal

Reseña del editor:

Few historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the Civil War with the headlong elan of Edwin Bearss, who has won a huge, devoted following with his extraordinary battlefield tours and eloquent soliloquies about the heroes, scoundrels, and little-known moments of a conflict that still fascinates America. Antietam, Shiloh, Gettysburg: these hallowed battles and more than a dozen more come alive as never before, rich with human interest and colourful detail culled from a lifetime of study. Illustrated with detailed maps and archival images, this 448-page volume presents a unique narrative of the Civil War's most critical battles, translating Bearss' inimitable delivery into print. As he guides readers from the first shots at Fort Sumter to Gettysburg's bloody fields to the dignified surrender at Appomattox, his engagingly plainspoken but expert account demonstrates why he stands beside Shelby Foote, James McPherson, and Ken Burns in the front rank of modern chroniclers of the Civil War, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning McPherson himself points out in his admiring Introduction.

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• Verlag: National Geographic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1426200935
• ISBN 13: 9781426200939
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448