Description: Hardcover Cloth 555 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1965 with W on colophon page. Lovely grey and green boards and silver and embossing shows off this tight, square copy with no marks or highlights. Previous owner's bookplate on front papers. Book Well kept and carefully stored with Slight shelf wear. Bumped corners. Spotting to top edge. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover with slight shelf wear - a few stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library or remainder copy. The final volume of Bruce Catton's monumental Centennial History of the Civil War traces the war from Fredericksburg through the succeeding grim and relentless campaigns to the Courthouse at Appomattox and the death of Lincoln. This is an eloquent study of the bitterest years of the war when death slashed the country with a brutality unparalleled in the history of the United States. Through the kaleidoscope tone and temper of the struggle, two men, different in stature, but similar in dedication to their awesome tasks, grappled with the burden of being leaders both in politics and war. In the north Lincoln remained resolute in the belief that a house divided against itself could not stand. His determination and uncanny vision of the destiny of the country and its people far transcended the plaguing tensions, fears, and frustrations of his cabinet and Congress. Mr. Lincoln's use of vast resources is brilliantly contrasted to Davis's valiant struggle for political and economic stability in a hopelessly fragmented and underdeveloped south. Though Davis never lacked for spirit and dedication, his handicaps were severe. This was not a war to be won by static ideals and romanticism. As Mr. Lincoln managed to expand and intensify the ideals that sustained the Northern war effort, Mr. Davis was never able to enlarge the South's. This was a war to be won by flexibility in though, strength in supplies, and battles. And so they were fought--Fredericksburg, The Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg.
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Signed By: NONE
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 1965
Type: Hardcover
Personalized: No
Features: First Edition, Dust Jacket, Hardcover
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Book Title: Never Call Retreat Vol. 3 : the Centennial History of the Civil War
Language: English
Genre: History
Author: Bruce Catton
Book Series: The Centennial History of the Civil War Ser.
Format: Hardcover
