![]() ![]() He does an amazing job making history come alive and is absolutely captivating. " Bruce Catton has written an excellent trilogy on the civil war. A must-read for Civil War buffs! " - Dick, " Second of Bruce Catton's three-book trilogy. ![]() Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.Now, if only middle and high schools used these books to teach history. "Whew, finally finished - admittedly, the amount of time it took me to read this was of my own doing and is not a reflection on the quality of the book. ![]() Slowly and inexorably, theĬonflict changed its nature from an uninspiring police action to a series ofīloody clashes for the cause of ending human slavery. Of Lee, Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Sherman emerged. Gradually, theĪction changed from small skirmishes to major battles and with it the statures Hard to win, but it had terrible handicaps (including flintlock rifles that The South recognized that it would have to strike General McClellan who is immortalized by excerpts taken directly from his The North had advantages on both fronts (but not one in Start, there action was sparse, as each side reviewed its position, counting The Union and Confederacy slowly reconciled themselves to all-out war. ![]() Now, in Terrible Swift Sword, he shows how Magnificent American Civil War trilogy, Bruce Catton described the forces thatĬombined to tear the United States apart, a portrait of a gathering storm that finally In The Coming Fury, the first volume of this ![]()
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