To: Jokelahoma
Read the trilogy by Bruce Catton. It will transfix you in the same was as Shelby. RIP.
10 posted on
06/28/2005 10:58:20 AM PDT by
Thebaddog
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To: Thebaddog
Read the trilogy by Bruce Catton. It will transfix you in the same was as Shelby. RIP.Always glad to see another Catton fan. "A Stillness at Appomattox" is so good it gives me goose-bumps.
I made my way through Shelby Foote's trilogy once, and I doubt I'll ever re-read it, but I go back to Catton time and again. I do love Shelby Foote's novel "Chickamauga." though...and his shorter Civil War books like "Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign."
To: Thebaddog
While Catton is a fine historian in his own right, his writing doesn't grab me that way Foote's did (and does).
44 posted on
06/28/2005 11:26:04 AM PDT by
Jokelahoma
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