The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 8: Petersburg to Savannah War is Cruelty - You Cannot Refine It

The Civil War: A Narrative #8

by Shelby Foote

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED in slightly different THE CIVIL A NARRATIVE RED RIVER to APPOMATTOX 1974 Random House hardcover, Shelby Foote (Fredericksburg to Meridian). A detailed history of the American Civil War.

Genres: History, Civil War, Nonfiction

326 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1974

About the author

Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, writing a massive, three-volume history of the war entitled The Civil War: A Narrative. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his career until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives."