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    This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War
    This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War
    This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War
    Audiobook18 hours

    This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War

    Written by Bruce Catton

    Narrated by David Drummond

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    The classic one-volume history of the American Civil War by Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton.

    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 in an almost novelistic way. It is this gift for narrative that led contemporary critics to compare this book to War and Peace, and call it a "modern Iliad." Now over fifty years old, This Hallowed Ground remains one of the best-loved and admired general Civil War books: a perfect introduction to listeners beginning their exploration of the conflict, as well as a thrilling analysis and reimagining of its events for experienced students of the war.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 22, 2018
    ISBN9781977380517
    This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War
    Author

    Bruce Catton

    Bruce Catton (1899–1978) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, historian, and journalist. He served in the navy during World War I and was the director of information for the War Production Board during World War II. Catton’s military and government experience inspired his first book, TheWar Lords of Washington, and he is best known for his acclaimed works on the Civil War, including Mr. Lincoln’s Army and Glory Road. His most celebrated Civil War history, A Stillness at Appomattox, won both the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1954. Catton was also the founding editor of American Heritage magazine. Among his other works are Grant Moves South; Grant Takes Command; and a three-part chronicle endorsed by the US Civil War Centennial Commission, The Coming Fury, Terrible Swift Sword, and Never Call Retreat.

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    • 5/5
      I learned more than I knew about the Civil War than ever before. Great book!
    • 2/5
      A history of the Civil War campaigns from the Union Army perspective, I cannot say whether this is a good or bad book on the subject. I found once I had begun it that my interest in the subject was null. It was written for youth, the illustrations were either old drawings or photos of army soldiers. Perhaps my children would have been able to get through this if they were assigned it in school, but I was not, so I quit reading it.
    • 4/5
      Vividly written but a little dated in its attitudes, especially its hostility to the Radical Republicans
    • 3/5
      The title is extremely misleading in that it really isn't about the North necessarily. Like everything else I've read by Catton, it is mostly about the military conflict, very little about the off-battlefield is discussed. I get the feeling big chunks of this work were dropped wholesale into his Centennial series, though I'm too lazy to go lookin in depth.
    • 2/5
      Hardly a book for light reading, but to a student of the American Civil War no doubt a valuable reference book.