books by Bruce Catton

books by Bruce Catton

books:

Bruce Catton

America Goes to War: The Civil War and Its Meaning in American Culture

Bruce Catton

Wesleyan, 1992

A Taste of Catton
Bruce Catton's book is a collection of the lectures he delivered in 1958 at Wesleyan University. They discuss some of the ideas in his earlier books and suggest ways to explore incompletely answered questions such as how was the war approached, how was it fought, and ...

American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (R)

Bruce Catton

Gramercy, 1994

EXCELLENT overview of the American Civil War.
This was my second Civil War book, which I received for Christmas when I was 12 (thanks Mom!). My love of the subject probably has a lot to do with this excellent volume, which I pored over for many years. It is loaded with photos, illustrations, and maps as well as ...

Bruce Catton's Civil War: Boxed 3 Volume Set

Bruce Catton

Phoenix Press, 2001

The Centennial History of the Civil War
Phoenix Press has done the reader a great service by issuing this attractive and inexpensive boxed paperback edition of Bruce Catton's classic three volume history of the Civil War. Begun in 1958 and released between 1961 and 1965, the three books, THE COMING FURY, ...

The Army of the Potomac 3 Volume Set: Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road, a Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton

Doubleday, 1962

Authoritative history of the Civil War by an expert
Mr. Lincoln's War, the first volume in the trilogy, recounts the heady days of the war, when the Union Army was led by its golden boy, George McClellan. Catton takes us inside the ranks, making large-scale tactics eminently understandable and both Union and Confederate ...

This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War (Wordsworth Military Library)

Bruce Catton

Combined Publishing, 2001

Romance and Realism in the Civil War
Of all the heartbreaking, sacrificial, and exhausting wars that the United States has encountered, the Civil War is the most upsetting of all. Bruce Catton, part of the last wave of a generation of romantic historians, paints a vivid portrait of the Union side of the ...

The Civil War (American Heritage Books)

Bruce Catton

Mariner Books, 2004

A great place to start...
From the very beginning, I was enthralled with the PBS series by Ken Burns, The Civil War. So why it took me so many years to read The Civil War companion book, I'll never know. Written by Geoffrey Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns, it was like discovering lost ...

Grant Takes Command: 1863 - 1865

Bruce Catton

Back Bay Books, 1990

Clear history of Grant's achievements
It is almost amazing that even after nearly 40 years, this book still stand the test of time as one of the best studies of General U.S. Grant's tenure as the military commander of all Federal forces. The book starts off from the Chattanooga campaign in late 1863 and ...

Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood (Great Lakes Books)

Bruce Catton

Wayne State University Press, 1987

Boyhood Memoirs of a Literary Giant
I never met Bruce Catton, but I corresponded briefly with him in the mid-1970's. The same qualities that marked him as a correspondent--courtesy, graciousness, and gentle humor--illuminate this lovely memoir of a great historian. Catton grew up in Benzonia, ...

Grant Moves South: 1861 - 1863

Bruce Catton

Back Bay Books, 1990

The Making of a General
Although Bruce Catton was an accomplished historian in his own right, one cannot help but notice the influence of the great Sherman biographer Lloyd Lewis. Anyone who has read Lewis' _Sherman: Fighting Profit_ will recognize similarities; the heavy reliance on primary ...

The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army; Glory Road; a Stillness At Appomattox (Volumes 1,2 and 3)

Bruce Catton

DOUBLEDAY, 1952

A great read
I'm definately no book critic, I can only say this is one of the most absorbing books I've ever read (3 books actually). It is written in the style of the best fiction, fast paced and fun to read, not anything close to a chore. Bruce Catton was extremely immersed in a ...

Grant Moves South

Bruce Catton

Castle Books, 2000

Still the Standard on Grant's Western Campaigns
Bruce Catton's eloquent and enjoyable book summarizes Ulysses S. Grant early on: "[H]is deepest instinct as a soldier was to keep a beaten foe off balance. Unfortunately, he seemed to be the only Union officer . . . who possessed that instinct." Sherman and Sheridan ...

A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3)

Bruce Catton

Peter Smith Publisher, 1992

A Masterpiece of Civil War History
It would be an almost impossible task for anyone to figure out just how many books have been written dealing with the American Civil War. It would also be difficult to determine which Civil War historians are most often cited by their peers but there is no doubt that ...

The American Heritage History of the American Revolution (American Heritage)
Bruce Lancaster

I Books, 2004

From Lexington and Concord to Yorktown, Bruce Lancaster's classic, The American Revolution, covers the story of America's fight for independence in vivid detail. With an introduction by the critically acclaimed author Bruce Catton, and a new foreword by Thomas Fleming, The American Revolution is a highly readable and engaging volume.

Phoenix: Terrible Swift Sword: Volume Two in the American Civil War Trilogy

Bruce Catton

Phoenix Press, 2001

The War Deepens
"The Terrible Swift Sword" continues Bruce Catton's journey through the Civil in this, the middle book in his trilogy. Covering the period from the summer of 1861 through the fall of 1862, Catton leads the reader through the military, political and social aspects of ...

Two Roads to Sumter: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and the March to the Civil War

William Catton, Bruce Catton

Castle Books, 2003

Lincoln and Davis - A Brilliant Study In Contrasts
By the Grand Master of American Historians, the late Bruce Catton and his son William. In "Two Roads to Sumter" the Cattons brilliantly analyze how the Kentucky roots of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis molded their character and their Allegiance to the ...