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

Catton, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385044518 ISBN 13: 9780385044516

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990

Synopsis

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - America's foremost Civil War historian recounts the final year of the Civil War in his final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy.

Bruce Catton 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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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

When first published 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.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385044518
• ISBN 13: 9780385044516
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448