Author: Bruce Catton
Narrator: Nelson Runger
Unabridged: 19 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/22/2011
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Philosophy, Movements, Military History
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.
Like the first volume of the Centennial commemorative trilogy by Bruce Catton, this volume two is extensively researched and written in a manor that is easy to comprehend. It covers the period from late 1861 to late 1862. It is detailed politically, militarily and civilly. It opened windows into man......more
This is the 2nd book in a fascinating series by the most trusted Civil War author in the history of our country. I have been reading books mostly about individual battles and campaigns for the past 20 years. This series has been a great because it ties everything together like the pieces of a giant......more
The second volume in Bruce Catton's famous and definitive Civil War history, this book covers 1862, focusing on the Federal advances in the West (that were not capitalized on by Henry Halleck), the amazing naval engagements along the southeastern coast and up and down the Mississippi River, and espe......more