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The Civil War
Geoffrey C. Ward
Kenneth Burns
其他書名
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2009-02-04
主題
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / Military / Pictorial
Political Science / History & Theory
ISBN
0307555151
9780307555151
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hsKLPs5XqtQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Based on the celebrated PBS television series about the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood—the complete text of the magisterial illustrated work of history that
The New York Times
hailed as "a treasure for the eye and mind."
"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing." —Shelby Foote, from
The Civil War
Now Geoffrey Ward's magisterial work of history is available in a text-only edition that interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood: not just Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Robert E. Lee, but genteel Southern ladies and escaped slaves, cavalry officers and common foot soldiers who fought in Yankee blue and Rebel gray.
The Civil War
also includes essays by our most distinguished historians of the era: Don E. Fehrenbacher, on the war's origins; Barbara J. Fields, on the freeing of the slaves; Shelby Foote, on the war's soldiers and commanders; James M. McPherson, on the political dimensions of the struggle; and C. Vann Woodward, assessing the America that emerged from the war's ashes.