Undoubtedly Bruce Catton's most brilliant book, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Catton, our foremost Civil War historian, recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy.
Utilizing various collections of unpublished letters written by soldiers, personal diaries of spouses and relatives, memoirs of soldiers and their families, and official war records, Catton follows Grant's campaigns from early 1864 to the end of the war, detailing many crucial battles along the way.
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“Michael Kramer’s fine, elegiac reading of Bruce
Catton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the closing months of the Civil War
reminds us why Catton is so many readers’ favorite historian. Here is popular
history at its very best—in its historical interest, its skill in storytelling,
and its excellent match of the narrator’s voice to text and author. Knowing the
story already makes it possible to listen to this closing chapter alone and, at
the same time, won’t prevent listeners from being on the edge of their seats
throughout.”
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