A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton

កញ្ញា 2014 · Tantor Media Inc · បរិយាយដោយ Michael Kramer

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Undoubtedly Bruce Catton's most brilliant book, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Catton, our foremost Civil War historian, recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy. Utilizing various collections of unpublished letters written by soldiers, personal diaries of spouses and relatives, memoirs of soldiers and their families, and official war records, Catton follows Grant's campaigns from early 1864 to the end of the war, detailing many crucial battles along the way.

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A United States journalist and writer, Bruce Catton (1899-1978) was one of America's most popular Civil War historians. He worked as a newspaperman and also held a position at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Catton's bestselling book, A Stillness at Appomattox, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954.

Audiobook veteran Michael Kramer has recorded more than two hundred audiobooks for trade publishers and many more for the Library of Congress Talking Books program. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner and an Audie Award nominee, he earned a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award for his reading of Savages by Don Winslow.