A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
By (Author) Bruce Catton
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
1st August 1990
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History of the Americas
973.741
Winner of National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1954
Physical Properties
Paperback
448
Width 132mm, Height 202mm, Spine 25mm
363g
Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER . NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER . America's foremost Civil War historian recounts the final year of the Civil War in his final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy. Bruce Catton takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbot, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee vividly come to life in all their failings and triumphs.
Author Bio
BRUCE CATTON was born in Petoskey, Michigan, in 1899. A United States journalist and writer, Catton was one of America's most popular Civil War historians. He worked as a newspaperman in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and also held a position at the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1948. Catton's best-selling book, A Stillness at Appomattox, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954. Before his death in 1978, Catton wrote a total of ten books detailing the Civil War.
