The Complete Shelby Foote Collection: Civil War Volumes 1-3 Box Set

Tory O'Neal: I haven't read it all yet but its a very graphic and real look into life in the Civil War era. I highly recommend.

United States on Feb 16, 2024

AIAI: Aproveché el descuento que tenía y compré este box set en $600 y pico (normalmente se vende en más de $2000). Es una edición en pasta dura de The Civil War de Shelby Foote, una historia narrativa de la guerra civil de Estados Unidos. El autor trabajó arduamente por décadas en esta obra y la consideraba su intento de realizar un Ilíada para su país. Incluye además un delgado libro de ensayos.

Mexico on Jan 11, 2024

Paul Wj Wakeham: Really disappointed, I have owned the Audible books by Shelby Foote for years and was looking forward to syncing my audible books with the Kindle versions ,but it doesn't seem to work 😕

United Kingdom on Dec 13, 2023

Mark: My absolutely favorite account of the Civil War. Shelby Foote sometimes gets a bad rap due to his supposed romanticism and his refusal to simply indulge in the North Good/South Bad narrative, but careful reading shows that he points to the good and bad of both sides and their leading characters, which is what honest history does. A monumental work, one that you will not come close to absorbing through only one reading, and one in which you can re-read several times and not feel like you're going over old ground again.

United States on Nov 21, 2023

Nylon shell/cotton liner: Comprehensive details. A non-linear approach to a linear historic event subject. Meaning this trilogy of sorts navigates both sides of the civil conflict with a miriad of personal, political, and strategic anecdotes.

United States on Oct 05, 2023

Sid W: I don't want to read it all at once. I like to savour this read.

Canada on Sep 16, 2023

Edu Lins: Livros lindos,edição impecável com mapas,realmente recomendo!

Brazil on Jul 29, 2022

william boulton: Shelby Foote is without doubt one of the best wordsmiths I have ever read. I read the 3 volumes of his Civil War almost 25 years ago, and have returned to them this year. I am about to finish volume 3, with regret. He will be a very hard act to follow, when it comes to choosing my next reading.

Australia on Aug 11, 2018

MH in GA: As the title of this review indicates, I have issues with this edition but the writing itself is of course a treasure: if I could give Shelby Foote six stars I would. Unfortunately, ML's product does not rate as high.

I purchased this Modern Library set to replace my old volumes, purchased more than twenty years ago and lost in a recent move. Foote's narrative is among the best I have ever read, and his opening description of Jefferson Davis rising in the U.S. senate to give his farewell is riveting. I challenge anybody to read the first fifty pages of Vol. 1 -- through the surrender of Ft. Sumpter -- and not be hooked.

As to the current edition, it was a disappointment. I have other Modern Library offerings which are of high quality but admittedly were purchased many years ago; perhaps the intervening years have seen a decline across the board in the hardcover publishing business. Specifics:

1. The box itself is just OK, fairly stout cardboard with a printed paper covering.

2. The books unfortunately have the same cover material as the box, which is to say cardboard and paper, a far cry from the cloth bindings of my old set.

3. No dust covers....

United States on Sep 25, 2014

Jerry Clyde Phillips: Foote is a novelist first, and the skill of his narration bears this out. Although the reader knows (or should know) what is about to take place (after all, this is the most written about war in literature), the author presents the events as a first rate novelist presents his plot twists and turns - with such subtlety that the reader is somewhat surprised when he comes face to face with such events as the assassination of Lincoln. And one has to remind oneself that the presidents, politicians, generals, officers and men of both sides are not literary creations but real men; they come alive to the reader as the best constructed fictional character comes alive to the novel reader. Being born and raised in Louisiana, I came to the book with some built-in biases, particularly against some of the Union generals like Sherman and Sheridan while harboring almost deistic sentiments toward Lee, Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson. Foote shatters these biases. By using primary evidence such as personal letters, public speeches and contemporary observations these men shed their auras and become merely flesh and blood doing what they had to do given the exigencies of the war. I gained a...

United States on Oct 20, 2008