A Stillness at Appomattox: Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3 by Bruce Catton
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(Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: August 1990
- 438pp
- Sales Rank: 60,851
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 1990
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 438pp
- Sales Rank: 60,851
- Series: Stillness at Appomattox Series
- ISBN-13: 9780385044516
- ISBN: 0385044518
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: Reissue
Synopsis
When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.
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Undoubtedly Catton's most brilliant books, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Caton recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy.
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The greatest everby Anonymous
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October 23, 2006: How do you write a review about a book that won the Pulitzer prize? I thought it was one of the greatest books ever written. The book kept me interested from the first page until the last page. I also suggest that you read the rest of the trilogy.
A thrilling and superb historical novel...by Anonymous
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June 26, 2000: Bruce Catton's thrilling and superb historical non-fiction novel, 'A Stillness at Appomattox,' would most definitely and non-arguably be rated at a perfect 5 stars. Undoubtedly, this novel is filled with tension, emotion and extreme factuous and detailed descriptions of the heartbreaking and glorious final year of America's Civil War in 1864. To be truthful, I myself, a 13 year old High School student, did not beleive that an almost 400 page war book and not only that, but an extremely detailed 400 page war book would be interesting or understandable at all. I thought that I wouldn't be able to follow along and understand the novel entirely, but everything was completely the opposite. The character description and the depth of emotional description is excellent and superb! It's so detailed, it's hard to beleive you're reading a war novel! I thought reading such a novel for my summer reading program at my High School would be too much, but I ended up enjoying it and most undoubtedly reccommend this brilliant novel to others.
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