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Book Cover for: A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Bruce Catton

A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Bruce Catton

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Winner:National Book Award -Nonfiction (1954)
When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of "The Army Of The Potomac" trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Anchor Books
  • Publish Date: Aug 1st, 1990
  • Pages: 448
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.30in - 0.99in - 0.77lb
  • EAN: 9780385044516
  • Categories: • United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)• Military - United States• United States - 19th Century

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About the Author

BRUCE CATTON was born in Petoskey, Michigan, in 1899. A United States journalist and writer, Catton was one of America's most popular Civil War historians. He worked as a newspaperman in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and also held a position at the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1948. Catton's best-selling book, A Stillness at Appomattox, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954. Before his death in 1978, Catton wrote a total of ten books detailing the Civil War.

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Looking forward to the Library of America's new edition of Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac Trilogy with an introduction by historian Gary Gallagher. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/697217/bruce-catton-the-army-of-the-potomac-trilogy-loa-359-by-bruce-catton--gary-w-gallagher-ed/9781598537253

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#OTD Civil War historian Bruce Catton was born 123 years ago today, in 1899. And in just two weeks his Army of the Potomac Trilogy (including the Pulitzer-winning "A Stillness at Appomattox") will be reissued in a single-volume Library of America edition. https://t.co/SaKQqT6ESo https://t.co/SCYkmiL1Xo

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