A Stillness at Appomattox

Posted on 03 January 2018 by Bruce Catton

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. Read A Stillness at Appomattox – kino-fada.fr Appomattox, one of the homely American place names made dreadful by war Appomattox Court House has a homeliness, but Wilderness Tavern, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor the Virginia killing fields of Grant s overland push those sound entirely sinister And then you have the fight grounds and sites of massacre from three centuries of Indian Wars, which seem to fall on either side of a fine line separating the comical Tippecanoe, Little Big Horn from the weirdly re...This was not just battle strategy as I had feared that it would be It was very readable and felt like the author had actually interviewed the troops It explored the personalities behind the successes and failures The battle accounts were quite vivid I intend to readof his books.This is not a book It is a holy thing.It s holy for what it says, how it says it and how well it understands it It is not read, it is lived It is experienced in short bursts and set aside, so that you can close your eyes and imagine and contemplate and feel, and pay all proper homage as you try to grasp its enormity I ve been to Civil War cemeteries where thou...This is the third installment in Bruce Catton s great Civil War trilogy Similar to the first two volumes, A Stillness at Appomattox continues the style of writing history for modern readers, concentrating on the human motivations central to important events These books are as readable and enjoyable today as they were originally in the 1950 s Beyond the broad appeal inherent in them, these three volumes, and especially A Stillness were important components in the mid twentieth century s This is the third installment in Bruce Catton s great Civil War trilogy Similar to the first two volumes, A Stillness at Appomattox continues the style of writing history for modern readers, concentrating on the human motivations central to important events These books are as readable and enjoyable today as they were originally in the 1950 s Beyond the broad appeal inherent in them, these three volumes, and especially A Stillness ...I re read this a few years back, and it s simply one of the best history books I ve ever read Grant s brutal sledgehammer campaign, Lee s ferocious response, it s all here, but written in a way that comes across, at times, like some sort of dark war poetry I think I saw on Goodreads where someone said that Catton was a historian with great heart I couldn ...I guess I read this book out of order, I didn t realize it was the third book in a trilogy That being said, it worked just fine as a stand alone book The last few months of the Civil War were really brought to life for me by this book sorry for the cliche phrase It s well written and reads like a novel, but it also contains a lot of quite interesting historical info...This is the third book of the famous Bruce Canton trilogy about the Civil War Published about 65 years ago it is much heralded and maybe the most famous telling of the story of the Civil War And I did find it mostly compelling reading although I am far from a fan of Civil War history The portions of the book which retold battle strategy and the movement of troops etc etc were most arduous for me And there was a lot of that But the stories about what was going on inside the heads of the This is the third book of the famous Bruce Canton trilogy about the Civil War Published about 65 years ago it is much heralded and maybe the most famous telling of the story of the Civil War And I did find it mostly compelling reading although I am far from a fan of Civil War history The portions of the book which retold battle strategy and the movement of troops etc etc were most arduous for me And there was a lot of that But the stories about what was going on inside the heads of the people was often compelling and fascinating The book is told predominately from the union point of view Which must be particularly irksome for southern readers But it just confirms what most everyone knows which is that the winners get to tell the story of the wars I have just recently read a biography of Robert E Lee so I had a little bit of that point of view in my head.I always thought trench warfare began in World War I But in reading the biography of General Lee and finding that he was trained as an eng...I read A Stillness at Appomattox while touring the Richmond Petersburg area at the end of May 2016 I now understand why it took the leadership of a man like Grant to beat the Southern gentry of a man like Lee This was killing on a grand scale when the industial might of the North just out produced the South in everything from food to armaments This...What can I say about Bruce Catton and this book I became a life long lover of all things history because of Bruce Catton I read these in my early twenties and I can still recall the sweet pleasure I got from realizing that history was actually FASCINATING when written by someone who seemed to sense the past as present Life changing for me If you would like to knowabout the Civil War and are a beginner I suggest you start with Catton If you need to remember why it is you became What can I say about Bruce Catton and this book I became a life long lover of all things history because of Bruce Catton I read these in my early twenties and I can still recall the sweet pleasure I got from ...If their is ever again any rejoicing in the world it will be when this war is over That quote summarises the feeling of most of the people who fought in the American Civil War This is the third book in Bruce Catton s novels about the War Just for the record, I have not read the other two Here, the War has grown old and insane But what was beginning wasthan what was ending Lieutenant General Ulysses S Grant had joined General Meade and the Potomac Army He was the remorseless If their is ever again any rejoicing in the world it will be when this war is over That quot...

English
03 January 2018

Bruce Catton