A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Brossura

Catton, Bruce

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ISBN 10: 0385044518 ISBN 13: 9780385044516

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990

Riassunto

Recounting the final year of the Civil War, this classic volume by Bruce Catton won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in non-fiction.

In this final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Catton, America's foremost Civil War historian, takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbot, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee vividly come to life in all their failings and triumphs.

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L'autore:

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 best-selling 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.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

ublished 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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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0385044518
• ISBN 13: 9780385044516
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448