The Civil War: V3 Red River to Appomattox - Shelby Foote

\nThis final volume of Shelby Foote's masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic d nouement of the war--the assassination of President Lincoln. \n Features maps throughout. \n \n 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 \n \n To read this chronicle is an awesome and moving experience. History and literature are rarely so thoroughly combined as here; one finishes this volume convinced that no one need undertake this particular enterprise again. --Newsweek \n \n In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail, in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject. . . . Written in the tradition of the great historian-artists--Gibbon, Prescott, Napier, Freeman--it stands alongside the work of the best of them. --The New Republic \n \n The most written-about war in history has, with this completion of Shelby Foote's trilogy, been given the epic treatment it deserves. --Providence Journal \n \n \n