Author: Bruce Catton
Narrator: Nelson Runger
Unabridged: 19 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/03/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History
Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan, in 1899. A United States journalist and writer, Catton was one of America's most popular Civil War historians. He worked as a newspaperman in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and also held a position at the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1948. Catton's bestselling book, A Stillness at Appomattox, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954. Before his death in 1978, Catton wrote a total of ten books detailing the Civil War.
This book is the final installment of Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy. It covered the period from late 1862 to the surrender of Lee's army and Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 to the end of the Confederacy in May 1865 with the surrender of the last rebel army. Ten year......more
No one will ever know what Abraham Lincoln would have ever done...because it was at this delicate moment...that Booth came on stage with his derringer. Booth pulled the trigger and the mind that held somewhere in cloudy solution the elements that might some day have crystallized into an answer for......more
The third volume in Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War may be the best of the three. Although there is plenty of action and the major battles are properly recounted, Catton does not engage in in-depth military analysis and detailed examination of battle plans and tactics. This is not......more