Bruce Catton
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1969]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Language
English
Description
A thrilling account of the final years of the War Between the States and the great general who led the Union to victory. This conclusion of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's acclaimed Civil War history of General Ulysses S. Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant's bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg - a victory that wrested control of the Mississippi River from Southern hands - President Abraham Lincoln...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1960]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Language
English
Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the complex man and controversial. Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy Preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics and relentless dedication to the Union ultimately ensured a Northern victory in the nation's bloodiest conflict. While a succession of Union generals -...
6) Glory road
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1952
Edition
[1st ed.]
Language
English
Description
The riveting saga of a nation at war with itself - from the Union Army's disaster at Fredericksburg to its costly triumph at Gettysburg - by Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War chronicler Bruce Catton In the second book of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Bruce Catton - one of America's most honored Civil War historians - once again brings the great battles and the men who fought them to breathtaking life. As the War Between the States moved through...
Author
Series
The army of the Potomac volume 3
Pub. Date
1953
Language
English
Description
Recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy in the final year of the Civil War.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 359
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the Civil War focuses on Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant, and discusses the final defeat of General Robert E. Lee.
Author
Publisher
American Heritage Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
From the opening shots to General George Pickett's ill-fated charge, Bruce Catton tells the dramatic story of the battle that resulted in more than 51,000 Union and Confederate casualties and changed the course of the war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Vintage Civil War library edition.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bruce Catton's classic account of the Civil War simultaneously captures the dramatic scope and intimate experience of that epic struggle in one brilliant volume. Covering events from the prelude of the conflict to the death of Lincoln, Catton blends a gripping narrative with deep, yet unassuming, scholarship to bring the war alive on the page in an almost novelistic way.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
"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...