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Title: Excellent history
Review: Shelby Foote's narrative of the Civil War is a fascinating, in-depth synthesis of information that is presented in an easy-to-read manner. The storytelling is engaging and, reading it, I feel like I am coming to understand the people and their motivations. In particular, I appreciate that this is not fiction--he uses quotations from letters and reports to allow the characters to "speak"; he does not suppose why they might have done such-and-such a thing; he lets them explain why they did it. What a great way to learn history!The books themselves are well-designed and well-made. It is always risky to get a paperback form of such a large book because of the stress on the spine, but if I can keep the books in their box when I am not reading them, I think they will be fine.It is a lot to take in and a lot to read, but then there really is that much to say about this war. This is clearly the result of a lifetime's study. Bravo, Shelby Foote!
