Reader recommendation: The Civil War
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Wallace Paprocki, Greenwich, N.Y.
I can't believe I read the聽 W聽 H聽 O聽 L聽 E聽聽 thing 鈥� The Civil War: A Narrative, Shelby Foote's 3,000-page trilogy of the US Civil War 鈥� an absorbing masterpiece not only for the author's extensive research but for his moving portrayal of leaders and battles, plans and hopes, victories and losses, and the terrible cost of the war for both sides.