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Bookplate near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. It is difficult to walk away from reading this book.
Bookplate near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.
Shiloh von shelby foote. Shiloh Foote Shelby ISBN. 9780517131701 Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Shiloh Shelby Foote ISBN.
Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. First edition of Footes classic fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862. Octavo original half cloth.
Signed by Shelby Foote on the half-title page. Bookplate near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Shiloh owes much to William Faulkner in the slow elegant cadence of its storytelling.
Its narrative also resembles Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage. A Novel is a unique telling of the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 during Americas Civil War. Told from the perspective of six different soldiers from both north and south the reader can glimpse into lives of Civil War soldiers heading into battle.
The sense of urgency the mounting fear and the human and animal carnage are vividly portrayed. It is difficult to walk away from reading this book. Shiloh Quotes Showing 1-18 of 18 But it seemed so wrong so scandalous somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting - or running anyhow - that it made me sick at my stomach.
I didnt want to have any more to do with the war if this was the way it was going to be Shelby Foote Shiloh. In Shiloh 1952 Foote foreshadows his use of historical narrative as he tells the story of the bloodiest battle in American history to that point from the first-person perspective of seven different characters. The narrative is presented by 17 characters Confederate soldiers Metcalf Dade and Polly.
And Union soldiers Fountain Flickner with each of the twelve named soldiers in the Indiana squad given one. In Shiloh historian Shelby Foote tells both sides of the Battle of Shiloh April 6-7 1862 from the points of view of Union and Confederate soldiers. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a soldier caught up in the fighting a rifleman with the 6th Mississippi an adjutant with the 53rd Ohio a scout with Nathan Bedford Forrests cavalry an artilleryman with the 1st Minnesota Battery etc.
Shelby Foote was an American historian and novelist. He was born on November 7 1916 in Greenville Mississippi and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a captain of field artillery but never saw combat.
After World War II he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award winner Shelby Foote.
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This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history from Shelby Foote beloved historian of the Civil War. Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing Tennessee but the inner movements of the combatants hearts and minds. Shelby Footes Shiloh is a novel about a real Civil War battle told from the point of view of a few common soldiers both northern and southern who fought there.
Because he chose to depict the action from these points of view he limits what can be said of the big picture. If one can ignore that big picture the book works very well at showing the reader what the experience must have been like for. A novel by Shelby Foote from Amazons Fiction Books Store.
Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history from Shelby Foote beloved historian of the Civil War. Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing Tennessee but the inner movements of the combatants hearts and minds.
50s Vintage Paperback Book Shiloh by Shelby Foote 1954 1st Signet Edition 1104. This is the intense compelling story of the lives and deaths of six men fighting at Shiloh the great battle that helped decide the Civil War. This is what it was like for brother to fight brother in the two.
In Shiloh historian Shelby Foote tells both sides of the Battle of Shiloh April 6-7 1862 from the points of view of Union and Confederate soldiers. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a soldier caught up in the fighting a rifleman with the 6th Mississippi an adjutant with the 53rd Ohio a scout with Nathan Bedford Forrests cavalry an artilleryman with the 1st Minnesota Battery etc. Through their eyes the.