Bruce Catton

Catton, our foremost Civil War historian, recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy.

With stunning detail and insights, America’s foremost Civil War historian recreates the war from its opening months....

The final work in this series begins in December of 1862....

This is the book Civil War enthusiasts have been waiting for....

For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through...

Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton covers events from the prelude of the conflict to the death of Lincoln in this one-volume history of the American Civil War. Catton blends a gripping narrative with deep, yet unassuming, scholarship to bring the war alive in an almost novelistic way....

Terrible Swift Sword (Vol. 2): The dismissal of George McClellan and the rise of Ulysses S. Grant....

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the controversial Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy....

A thrilling account of the final years of the War Between the States and the great general who led the Union to victory....

Bruce Catton tells the dramatic story of the battle that resulted in more than 51,000 Union and Confederate casualties and changed the course of the war....

Grant rose from the rank of an unknown solider to commanding general of the US Army, finding redemption as the military savior of the embattled Union....

The riveting saga of a nation at war with itself - from the Union Army's disaster at Fredericksburg to its costly triumph at Gettysburg - by Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler Bruce Catton....

A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton....