

Shiloh, 1862
Author: Winston Groom
Narrator: Eric G. Dove
Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 03/20/2012
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History
Author: Winston Groom
Narrator: Eric G. Dove
Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 03/20/2012
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History
Winston Groom is the author of 15 previous books, including Vicksburg, 1863; Kearny’s March; Patriotic Fire; Shrouds of Glory; Forrest Gump; and Conversations with the Enemy (with Duncan Spencer), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He lives with his wife and daughter in Point Clear, Alabama.
Shiloh, 1862: Winston Groom's history of the battle of Shiloh The Hornet's Nest, "War means fightin'. Fightin' means killin'."--Nathan Bedford Forrest I'll be the first to admit as much of it as I have read, some military histories can be duller than dishwater. There are authors of that vast genre......more
This is, without a doubt, the best single volume treatment of the battle to date. The author takes up the late, great Shelby Foote's mantle and runs with it. We get to know several key participants in the battle, including Confederate Henry Morton Stanley, later made famous by his discovery of Dr. L......more
If a book like Larry Daniel’s Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War is the more academic version of the 1862 battle, Winston Groom’s is the more readable, accessible version. I read Daniel’s book recently and attempted to move on in my chronological Civil War reading, but something was naggi......more
an extremely well written account of what was the bloodiest battle in American history, up to that point. More Americans died in that battle than in all of America's previous wars combined, and more than had died in the Civil War up to that point. Unfortunately, Antietam eventually took that honor,......more
Groom's Shiloh is by no means an exact blow by blow account of the battle. Rather it is a well written narrative that uses human stories of the participants to give a general account of the battle. It works as a readable narrative, although I am sure many scholars will take exception to its more tra......more