Author: Foote, Shelby,
Title: The Civil War: a narrative Fredericksburg to Meridian.
Description: NY, Vintage, (1986). 41st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Author has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to. the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be bettered. Atlantic Monthly Edge wear, small mend bottom of front cover. Author Foote comes from a long line of Mississippians. Born in Greenville and attended school there until he entered the Univ. of North Carolina. During WWII he served in the European theater as a captain o field artillery; since the war he wrote five novels and awarded three Guggenheim fellowships.

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