The American Heritage History of the ..., Bruce Catton
The American Heritage History of the ..., Bruce Catton
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The American Heritage History of the Civil War

Author: Bruce Catton

Narrator: Barrett Whitener

Unabridged: 8 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/21/2010

Synopsis

"America needed its great war of brothers," wrote Bruce Catton, "to weld in a terrible fire what had been and what might be. The story of the war needs retelling because it helped to change the future of the human race." For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through all the maze of battles and issues of the Civil War, this is a book without parallel. Catton understood the Civil War, its participants and battles, and he unfolds it with skill and simplicity. Of all historians past and present, Bruce Catton ranks among the best.

About Bruce Catton

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on April 10, 2019

A superbly written text from a master historian. Great flow. Easy to read. Covers all aspects of the Civil War from pre-war to post-war. A great learning experience.......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 05, 2009

When I was a kid, my grandparents thought they would do something that every grandparent should do - share what they love with the next generation. They bought me a subscription to the Time-Life series on The Civil War. Now for those of you too young to remember, Time-Life used to publish these mont......more

Goodreads review by Ben on July 29, 2021

This was a good overview on the Civil War. but one book isn't enough to cover the whole Civil War, most campaigns, or battles, or generals get their own book with lots of more detail. I'll read more of Catton's and McPherson’s Civil War books. Good stuff.......more

Goodreads review by Janet on July 30, 2024

Bruce Catton is one of the giants of Civil War non-fiction, with in-depth treatments of various battles, generals, and phases of the war, I decided to start with his survey book, titled simply The Civil War. It was outstanding. At 400 pages, it is less than half as long as McPherson's 867-page tome.......more

Goodreads review by Brian on February 01, 2016

"The Civil War" is a good surface exploration of a topic that has inspired countless volumes of books, and will continue to do so for many years to come. I believe this text would be helpful to someone who has been away from the topic of the Civil War for a long time (as I was) and needs a refresher......more

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