This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War [Mainstream of America Series] [VINTAGE 1956] [FIRST EDITION]

Catton, Bruce; Gannett, Lewis

Verlag: Doubleday & Company, New York, 1956

Near fine unread condition light silver gray cloth boards with gilt front cover lettering/decorations, gild spine lettering, with the title in a blue and gold block border, contained in a very good condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Bruce Catton; Author Dedication; Notes; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index and List of Maps. Illustrated with black-and-white maps and two-color map illustrated front and rear endpapers. The dust jacket has some light to moderate scattered edgewear chips and rubbing mainly at the upper and lower spine edge (see photographs). All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "War: the word had been said, and the business could go just one way. In the black hours of early morning the United States officers stood at the parapet atop Fort Sumter and looked off in the darkness toward the place where, they knew, the nearest guns had been planted. And at last there was a quick flash, like heat lightning, off beyond the unseen marshland, and a sullen red spark climbed up the black sky, seemed to hang motionless for a final instant directly overhead, and then came plunging down, to explode in great light and rocking sound that would reverberate across the land and mark an end and a beginning. This Hallowed Ground is the story of the Civil War as seen from the Union side. Only Bruce Catton, with his magnificent feeling for the human aspects of history and his ability to translate historical fact into absorbing narrative, could have written this brilliant and stirring book. And for the first time Mr. Catton has written a book that deals with the entire scope of the war - from the months of unrest and hysteria that led to Fort Sumter to the days of tragedy and hope that followed Appomattox. The reader relives with the author the shock and shell and glory of the war, but the true greatness of This Hallowed Ground lies in Bruce Catton's deeply moving analysis of the issues and meaning of the conflict." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005672

Bibliografische Details

Titel: This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union...
Verlag: Doubleday & Company, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1956
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Near Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
Auflage: 1st Edition