About the book
The whole American Civil War, from the months of unrest before Fort Sumter to the Union victory and the death of Lincoln, fits into a single volume in this history by Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton. Catton pairs narrative with quiet scholarship to convey both the scale of the conflict and the intimate experience of it, and his gift for narrative led critics of the time to compare it with War and Peace and to call it a modern Iliad. It works as an introduction for readers new to the war and as a fresh analysis of its events for those who already know it well.
Ryan Holiday loved it in 2017 along with A Stillness at Appomattox, and said Catton is the writer to read for anyone hoping to understand the Civil War.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
This year I loved Bruce Catton’s This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War and A Stillness at Appomattox. If you want to understand the Civil War and you want to see one of the greatest non-fiction writing ever, read Catton.
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