Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground |
Buy Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground here, one of 750 Civil War books offered for sale at discount prices here in the history books section at R bookshop. There are currently 69558 history books in our history books section, and over 1,000,000 books listed in our book store. We greatly appreciate your patronage at R bookshop and look forward to offering you a large selection of great books at discount prices now and in the future. Thank you for shopping at R Bookshop!
|
You Are Here: Home > History Books > Civil War > Item 19
 |
Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground
|
by Jeff Shaara
Sales Rank: 39503
|
Discount: 32 %
List Price: $18.95
$12.89
At Amazon
on 4-19-2008.
|
|
|
|
Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
Published by: Ballantine Books April 25, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0345464885
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0345464880
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
From Booklist
Shaara is the author of two "nonfiction novels" that completed the Civil War trilogy begun by his late father, Michael, with the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels (2001). Here Shaara provides a guide to ten of the most significant Civil War battlefields. He begins with the first great bloodletting at Shiloh, and he concludes with Petersburg, a sustained seige with World War I-style trench warfare. Shaara superbly provides context for the actual battles by describing the physical settings as well as the military environment that precipitated the battles. Shaara is at his best, however, in describing the ebb and flow of the fighting. He describes in vivid--and often necessarily gruesome--detail episodes like the death of Albert Johnston at Shiloh, the famed charge of the 20th Maine at Gettysburg, and the machinelike mowing down of Union troops at Cold Harbor. The text is amply supported by maps and photos. This is an informative and moving examination of "hallowed ground" that will appeal to both scholars and Civil War buffs, especially those planning to visit these sites. Jay Freeman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg/Appomattox. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides
• engaging narratives of the war’s crucial battles
• intriguing historical footnotes about each site
• photographs of the locations–then and now
• detailed maps of the battle scenes
• fascinating sidebars with related points of interest
From Antietam to Gettysburg to Vicksburg, and to the many poignant destinations in between, Jeff Shaara’s Civil War Battlefields is the ideal guide for casual tourists and Civil War enthusiasts alike.
Reader Reviews
"In the summer of 1964, a twelve-year-old boy followed his father across a mile of open grassy fields that separated the Union and Confederate lines at Gettysburg. They walked in the footsteps of the men who crossed this same ground on July 3, 1863, Confederate soldiers who made one of the most tragic attacks in our history. . . . That boy was me. My father, Michael Shaara, was so inspired by the experience of walking the ground at Gettysburg that he spent the next seven years writing a novel about what happened there. That novel, published in 1974, was titled The Killer Angels." So writes the author in the introduction to Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields. He goes on to say that his father died in 1988 without being able to see the Ted Turner film "Gettysburg" (1993), which was based on The Killer Angels. But the torch of inspiration had already passed from father to son, and Jeff Shaara has gone on to write two novels, Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, which added to his father's Killer Angels, completes a trilogy of Civil War novels. Jeff Shaara's passion for studying, and writing about, history shows no sign of abatement, for in the present volume, he guides us in discovering America's "hallowed ground" by selecting ten key Civil War Battles. In ten chapters, Shaara discusses the battles of Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, The Wilderness/Spotsylvania, New Market, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg/Appomattox Court House. He divides each chapter into three sections: (1) "What Happened Here?"; (2) "Why Is This Battle Important?" and (3) "What You Should See?" For Civil War buffs such as myself, this book brings back memories of battlefields visited (and I have had the privilege of visiting eight of the ten that he describes). Numerous maps and photographs scattered throughout the volume illustrate the text. The reader revisits three beautiful battlefields: Shiloh (the Hornet's Nest, the Peach Orchard, the Bloody Pond, and the place where Albert Sidney Johnston was killed); Antietam (the Dunker Church, the Bloody Lane, and the Burnside Bridge); and Gettysburg (Culp's Hill, the Devil's Den, Little Roundtop, and the wide, open field across which "Pickett's Charge" was made. One also reads of the terrible slaughter at Cold Harbor and in the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, especially at "the Bloody Angle"; the heroic stand of George Thomas, who earned the moniker "The Rock of Chickamauga." Chickamauga, which remains today the largest of the Civil War battlefield parks, covering nearly 5,600 acres, is a name derived from the Cherokee language, and means "River of Death"), the Crater at Petersburg, and the McLean House at Appomattox Court House, where Robert E. Lee surrender the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant. Although not exhaustive or comprehensive (for example, battles in Tennessee (other than Shiloh)--Stones River/Murfreesboro, Franklin, and Nashville--get short shrift), Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields offers an insightful bird's-eye view of the Civil War. The best way to understand "what happened here" is to make a personal visit to these battlefields. For the armchair historian, however, this book is a welcome and fascinating guide. Roy E. Perry of Nolensville, Tennessee (rperry1778@aol.com) is an advertising copywriter at a Nashville publishing house. He is an amateur philosopher, Civil War buff, chess enthusiast, classical music lover, and aficionado of fine literature.
Comment | Permalink |
(Report this)
Back To Top
|
Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground
Available from Amazon
Price: $12.89
Updated on 4-19-2008.
|
NOTICE: All prices, availability, and specifications
are subject to verification by their respective retailers.
| We offer Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground and other related Civil War Books here at Rbookshop.com. To view more books about Civil War please use the previous and next buttons near the top of this page.
|
|
Search for books at
