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Shelby Foote 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, where he lived for the remainder of his life.
Foote was the author of six novels: Tournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan County, and September, September. He is best remembered for his 3-volume history The Civil... Read More
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The Civil War: A Narrative
Format: Trade Paperback, 856 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1986
Price: $26.00
"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters."--Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News
"A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 856 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1986
Price: $26.00
"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters."--Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News
"A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War... Read more >
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The Civil War: A Narrative
Format: Trade Paperback, 1120 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1986
Price: $26.00
"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." —Walker Percy
"I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies... Foote stays with the human strife... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 1120 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1986
Price: $26.00
"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." —Walker Percy
"I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies... Foote stays with the human strife... Read more >
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The Civil War: A Narrative
Format: Trade Paperback, 1000 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1986
Price: $26.00
"This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." —The Washington Post Book World
"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 1000 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1986
Price: $26.00
"This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." —The Washington Post Book World
"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders... Read more >
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Stars in Their Courses
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 28, 1994
Price: $21.00
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 28, 1994
Price: $21.00
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Shiloh
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 9, 1991
Price: $13.95
This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 fulfills the standard set by his monumental history, conveying both the bloody choreography of two armies and the movements of the combatants' hearts and minds. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 9, 1991
Price: $13.95
This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 fulfills the standard set by his monumental history, conveying both the bloody choreography of two armies and the movements of the combatants' hearts and minds. Read more >
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The Annals & The Histories
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $15.95
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, and conclude... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $15.95
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, and conclude... Read more >
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The Red Badge of Courage & "The Veteran"
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $8.95
One of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming. Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, the novel imagines the Civil War's terror and loss with... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $8.95
One of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming. Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, the novel imagines the Civil War's terror and loss with... Read more >
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The Beleaguered City
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: August 8, 1995
Price: $19.00
The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant's siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote's narrative of the great battles of the Civil War--culled from his massive three-volume history--recounting a campaign which Lincoln called "one of the most brilliant in the world." Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: August 8, 1995
Price: $19.00
The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant's siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote's narrative of the great battles of the Civil War--culled from his massive three-volume history--recounting a campaign which Lincoln called "one of the most brilliant in the world." Read more >
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The Civil War
Format: Hardcover, 848 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1958
Price: $55.00
"This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." —The Washington Post Book World
"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 848 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1958
Price: $55.00
"This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." —The Washington Post Book World
"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders... Read more >
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Follow Me Down
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $14.00
A mesmerizing novel of faith, passion, and murder by the author of The Civil War: A Narrative. Drawing on themes as old as the Bible, Foote's novel compels us to inhabit lives obsessed with sin and starving for redemption. A work reminiscent of both Faulkner and O'Connor, yet utterly original. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $14.00
A mesmerizing novel of faith, passion, and murder by the author of The Civil War: A Narrative. Drawing on themes as old as the Bible, Foote's novel compels us to inhabit lives obsessed with sin and starving for redemption. A work reminiscent of both Faulkner and O'Connor, yet utterly original. Read more >
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Love in a Dry Season
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $13.95
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $13.95
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September, September
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: April 9, 1991
Price: $15.00
In September 1957 the South is mesmerized by events in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose governor has called out the National Guard as part of his attempt to halt the integration of Central High School. And in Memphis, two white men and a white woman are planning to capitalize on the confrontation... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: April 9, 1991
Price: $15.00
In September 1957 the South is mesmerized by events in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose governor has called out the National Guard as part of his attempt to halt the integration of Central High School. And in Memphis, two white men and a white woman are planning to capitalize on the confrontation... Read more >
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Jordan County
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $14.00
Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $14.00
Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward... Read more >
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Chickamauga
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1993
Price: $15.00
Shelby Foote's monumental historical trilogy, "The Civil War: A Narrative," is our window into the day-by-day unfolding of our nation's defining event. Now Foote reveals the deeper human truth behind the battles and speeches through the fiction he has chosen for this vivid, moving collection.
These ten stories of the Civil War give... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1993
Price: $15.00
Shelby Foote's monumental historical trilogy, "The Civil War: A Narrative," is our window into the day-by-day unfolding of our nation's defining event. Now Foote reveals the deeper human truth behind the battles and speeches through the fiction he has chosen for this vivid, moving collection.
These ten stories of the Civil War give... Read more >
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The Civil War
Format: Hardcover, 1000 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1963
Price: $55.00
The first volume of Shelby Foote's tremendous narrative of the Civil War was greeted enthusiastically by critics and readers alike (see back of jacket for comments). In this dramatic second volume the scope and power, the lively portrayal of exciting personalities, and the memorable re-creation of events have continued unmistakably. In... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1000 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1963
Price: $55.00
The first volume of Shelby Foote's tremendous narrative of the Civil War was greeted enthusiastically by critics and readers alike (see back of jacket for comments). In this dramatic second volume the scope and power, the lively portrayal of exciting personalities, and the memorable re-creation of events have continued unmistakably. In... Read more >
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The Civil War
Format: Hardcover, 1120 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1974
Price: $55.00
Twenty years ago, in 1954, novelist Shelby Foote began this monumental work with these words: "It was a Monday in Washington, January 21; Jefferson Davis rose from his seat in the Senate..."
In the third -- and last -- volume of this vivid history, he brings to a close the story of... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1120 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1974
Price: $55.00
Twenty years ago, in 1954, novelist Shelby Foote began this monumental work with these words: "It was a Monday in Washington, January 21; Jefferson Davis rose from his seat in the Senate..."
In the third -- and last -- volume of this vivid history, he brings to a close the story of... Read more >
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The Annals & The Histories
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, and conclude... Read more >
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, and conclude... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Civil War, 3-Volume Box Set
Format: Boxed Set
On Sale: November 12, 1974
Price: $165.00
A stunning literary and historical achievement, the three volumes of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War vividly bring to life the four years of torment and strife that altered American life forever. Presented in a handsome boxed set, these three beautifully bound hardcovers are an essential addition to every American history collection... Read more >
Format: Boxed Set
On Sale: November 12, 1974
Price: $165.00
A stunning literary and historical achievement, the three volumes of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War vividly bring to life the four years of torment and strife that altered American life forever. Presented in a handsome boxed set, these three beautifully bound hardcovers are an essential addition to every American history collection... Read more >
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Civil War Volumes 1-3 Box Set
Format: Boxed Set
On Sale: November 12, 1986
Price: $78.00
Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Collected together in a handsome boxed set, this is the perfect gift for any Civil War buff.
Fort Sumter to Perryville
"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great... Read more >
Format: Boxed Set
On Sale: November 12, 1986
Price: $78.00
Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Collected together in a handsome boxed set, this is the perfect gift for any Civil War buff.
Fort Sumter to Perryville
"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great... Read more >
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The Red Badge of Courage
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $8.95
The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create 'a psychological portrayal of fear.' Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $8.95
The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create 'a psychological portrayal of fear.' Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer... Read more >
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