A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby
Foote's landmark history of the Civil War
Shelby Foote's monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A
Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as "an unparalleled achievement,
an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the
historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist."
Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the
capstone of the arch, in a single volume. Complete with detailed maps,
Stars in Their Courses brilliantly recreates the three-day conflict:
It is a masterly treatment of a key great battle and the events that
preceded it--not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became
distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory.