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A Stillness at Appomattox

The Army of the Potomac, Volume 3

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A Stillness at Appomattox

By: Bruce Catton
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
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Undoubtedly Bruce Catton's most brilliant book, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Catton, our foremost Civil War historian, recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy. Utilizing various collections of unpublished letters written by soldiers, personal diaries of spouses and relatives, memoirs of soldiers and their families, and official war records, Catton follows Grant's campaigns from early 1864 to the end of the war, detailing many crucial battles along the way.

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Narroration was excellent, bad Narroration can ruin an otherwise good book. The story is superb. And all together was very interesting

Wonderful book. Probably my favorite from Catton

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The narration is fabulous. The research that has gone into this book is impressive. It has left me with a profound respect for men who gave their all for the freedoms I enjoy.

This makes history come to life

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Catton has a way of drawing you in to the story, and making you forget these things really happened!

super easy listen

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Truly a masterpiece. I have read or listened to a dozen civil war books and this may have been the best. It held my interest beyond my expectations.

Perfect

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A magnificent of an incredible struggle. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

So poetic

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This book is a Pulitzer Prize winner for good reason. It’s both good history and pretty fair poetry. It is a chronicle of the end of the Civil War, starting just before Grant and Meade took the Army of the Potomac across the Rapidan and into the Wilderness, and ending, well, at the end. It manages to provide both high level insight into the strategy, politics, and social context of the war, along with detailed portraits of major figures (notably Grant and Sheridan), and an intimate look at how the common infantry soldier lived, fought, and died during the war. I can’t recommend the book highly enough.

Poetic History

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One of the very best Civil War books I have read. I highly recommend it.

Remarkable

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Great narration of the intimate and authentic journey of the last year of the Army of the Potomac.

Superb Catton classic.

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Superbly written, well narrated. Deeper detail than Shelby Foote, as well written if not better written. A bucket list read, the trilogy, for anyone interested in the Civil War.

Fabulous

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Definitely deserved the Pulitzer it received. Catton’s ability to place the reader in the very minds of the soldiers is simply amazing. I wish he had continued by relating the meeting at Appomattox Courthouse and the subsequent surrender ceremony. Perhaps I’ll find it among his other works. I hope so.

Ended too soon.

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