The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
An excellent overview of the early years of the American Civil War: Sumter to Perryville. When Foote says a sound was "dismal in the frosty night" you know he is channeling the drama of this bloody crisis, but will go no further into treating the subject like a novel. I hope to get to the later volumes sometime soon.
A note about this specific audio version. At times, background voices can be discerned, as if the narrator was in a room adjacent to other narrators. This for me barely rose to the level of a distraction.
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