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Don Troiani's Civil War
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by Don Troiani and Brian C. Pohanka
Sales Rank: 164144
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List Price: $49.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 188 pages
Published by: Stackpole BooksEdition: 1st Edition September 1995
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 081170341X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0811703413
Book Dimensions:
11.7 x 8.6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 2.4 pounds
Product Review
Although he has been painting the War Between the States since 1980, Don Troiani's Civil War is the first book to collect this historical artist's work in one volume. Troiani is at his best in the battle paintings--his attention to detail and insistence on historical accuracy help him capture the valor and confusion of combat--but the book includes more bucolic depictions of camp life, as well. Brian Pohanka's accompanying text illuminates the stories behind the paintings. For example, he describes a famous episode from Second Manassas where Confederate soldiers ran out of bullets during a Union assault; the beleaguered Rebels resorted to throwing rocks at the Union lines. Troiani captures this desperate action awesomely. Because the narrative focuses on these small stories, it sometimes misses the big picture; so while the text and paintings are presented in chronological order from 1861 to 1865, it makes for only a so-so recounting of the war overall. But this is not a book you read so much as experience. --Thomas Prowell
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Stephen W. Sears, author of Chancellorsville
"Don Troiani is unsurpassed at recreating, with absolute fidelity, the decisive moments of great battles."
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Reader Reviews
Don Troiani is undoubtedly the best military artist in the United States today and his Civil War paintings accurately portray the armies of that most terrible of wars. Colorful, realistic, and full of movement, action, and the terror of combat, they have moved up to fill a void that was created with the passing of the older generation of great American military painters such as H. Charles McBarron and Clyde Risley. This book is a noteworthy compendium of his Civil War paintings, and, accompanied by authoritative text by Brian Pohanka, is a valuable addition to the growing crescendo of Civil War literature. Accurate, gritty, and covering the subject from muzzle to buttplate, this account and the paintings it describes bring the war to life on your bookshelf or coffee table. No other painter today, with the exception of Keith Rocco and his Napoleonic paintings, has captured the world of the combat soldier as Troaini has. If you don't own this book, you are definitely missing out on a part of history.
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