The Civil War A Narrative, Vol. 2, Shelby Foote
The Civil War A Narrative, Vol. 2, Shelby Foote
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2
Fredericksburg to Meridian

Author: Shelby Foote

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 52 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2016

Synopsis

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 continues one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. Focusing on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume in Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War, including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign.The word narrative is the key to this book’s extraordinary incandescence and truth: the story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research.This is a must-listen for anyone interested in one of the bloodiest wars in America’s history.

About Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote (1916–2005) was an American historian and novelist who came from a long line of Mississippians. After attending the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II as a captain of field artillery in the European theater. He wrote six novels and was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships in the twenty-year course of writing his monumental three-volume history, The Civil War: A Narrative.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Janet on February 04, 2024

Many years ago, traveling across the US tracking down some of the Civil War battlefields I stumbled across Ken Burns’ PBS documentary and bought a copy to while away evenings in my motel room. And as astonishing as Burns’ wonderful photography and his enlightening overview of the conflict was - and......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on September 22, 2024

The first volume of Shelby Foote's three volume narrative about the American Civil War was a very compelling read. It's very dense, and very long because of its completeness, but I found it highly readable and at times quite riveting. In his notes at the end of this volume, Foote mentioned a small b......more

Goodreads review by Richard on January 27, 2013

Shelby Foote would be considered by many Civil War readers to be the greatest writer on the subject. He considered himself to be a historian but not an academic, and his extremely detailed knowledge of the Civil War coupled with his straight-forward writing style have produced works which have fasci......more

Goodreads review by William on September 03, 2012

One of the advantages of growing old (or older) is that you develop a very long memory. 1961 marked the centennial year of the start of the Civil War and the bookstores were filled with works about the war and the people who fought it. I really got into the period and read many of the major works on......more

Quotes

“An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist.” Walker Percy, author of the National Book Award–winning Moviegoer

“Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times, they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail.” New York Times Book Review

“This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition…The writing is superb…One of the historical and literary achievements of our time.” Washington Post Book World

“Gettysburg…is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle…Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist’s skill in directing the reader’s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better.” Atlantic

Awards

  • National Book Award
  • National Review 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century
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