![]() ![]() ![]() It’s as if Catton was there although he was writing nearly one-hundred years after the war. ![]() Perhaps for a moment you have time to make your bivouac and rest only to be summoned into battle, leaving your half-cooked breakfast on the fire. Amidst the grand drama of the conflict, Catton shows you what it was like to be an infantry man marching for miles along alternately dry and dust choked roads or bogged down highways of mud. ![]() He puts you right in the thick of the action by relying on first-hand accounts from the soldiers who fought the war. With reviews such as these in mind, I began Catton’s book back in April of this year and finished it this week, and although I certainly didn’t read it all in one sitting, I did find it a very satisfying read.įor the genre of wartime histories, Catton’s work was ahead of its time. Reviewer John Miller commented, “If every historian wrote like Bruce Catton, no one would read fiction.” Another reviewer commented that he was so taken by the writing that he read the book in one sitting. It was described as an accurate, heavily footnoted work which reads like a well-written work of fiction. The third book in Bruce Catton’s non-fiction Civil War trilogy, A Stillness at Appomattox, came to my attention via a lofty recommendation. ![]()
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