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The Civil War

By: Bruce Catton
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
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 For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through all the maze of battles and issues of the Civil War, this is an audiobook without parallel. Bruce Catton understood the Civil War - its participants and battles - and he unfolds it with skill and simplicity. Of all historians past and present, Bruce Catton ranks among the best.©1960 by American Heritage, Inc. (P)1991 by Blackstone Audiobooks Military Civil War War

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"[The Civil War] is everything we have come to expect from the practiced hand of Bruce Catton: scholarly, judicious, clear, and unfailingly interesting. It would be difficult to find a better introduction to the Civil War than this book.
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A famous timeless overview of the war. Interesting to hear other important pieces of history that more current historians seem to forget or gloss over

Great overview

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I liked this story and got a better understanding of it than I’d previously had , about events and timelines .

Good interpretation of the war

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