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    Shiloh: A Novel
    Shiloh: A Novel
    Shiloh: A Novel
    Audiobook4 hours

    Shiloh: A Novel

    Written by Shelby Foote

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot

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    About this audiobook

    This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history, from Shelby Foote, beloved historian of the Civil War. Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but the inner movements of the combatants' hearts and minds. Through the eyes of officers and illiterate foot soldiers, heroes, and cowards, Shiloh creates a dramatic mosaic of a critical moment in the making of America, complete to the haze of gunsmoke and the stunned expression in the eyes of dying men.

    Shiloh, which was hailed by The New York Times as “imaginative, powerful, filled with precise visual details . . . a brilliant book” fulfills the standard set by Shelby Foote's monumental three-part chronical of the Civil War.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 9, 2019
    ISBN9781977346414
    Shiloh: A Novel

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    • 5/5
      Awesome book, I listened to it twice back to back!
    • 4/5
      Great job of bringing the battle down to the individual.
    • 3/5
      Good Civil War story.
    • 5/5
      For tells the story of the battle of Shiloh through the eyes of a random collection of individual soldiers - northern and southern. Both sides clearly believed in the right of what they were fight for. Heroics are mainly forgotten except for Forests charge. An enjoyable addition to Foote's cannon.
    • 5/5
      I'm reading a 1952 first edition copy of this book (third time I've read it since acquiring this copy in the early '80s) and I love the feel of reading something sixty years old in its original version. That just seems to place the whole thing in its proper context, for some reason."Shiloh: A Novel" tells the story of that terrible Civil War Battle through the eyes of several soldiers on both sides of the line beginning and ending with Lieutenant Palmer Metcalfe, an aide to Albert Sydney Johnston. Foote switches from one point-of-view to the next as distinctive and important phases of the battle itself begin and end. The result is that the reader comes away with a clear understanding of what went right and what went wrong for both sides during the two-day fight that further solidified the reputation of Grant - and cost Johnston his life.Readers of Civil War fiction will also note that this little 222-page novel serves as a technical blueprint for Michael Shaara's further groundbreaking novel of 1974, "Gettysburg," in which Shaara used much the same structure. And, of course, Michael's son, Jeff, along with other writers has further expanded on this type novel to make it a relatively common style of Civil War fiction today.But "Shiloh" was out there ahead of them showing the way and this splendid little novel should not be missed.
    • 4/5
      Mr. Foote is well known as the narrator of "The Civil War", and is a fine stylist. The sepia-tinted novel is a good Battle book, and flows nicely over the underlying apologia for the South. It was originally written in 1952.
    • 4/5
      An account of the battle told from several different first person perspectives- the horrors of this particular war are graphic and striking.
      I enjoyed this a great deal. Foote is second to none in the area of Civil War history.
    • 4/5
      Pretty good; still find following a battle confusing.
    • 4/5
      The chaos, horror, and carnage of war from multiple perspectives during the battle at Shiloh. The issue of North versus South is almost irrelevant to Foote's novel, rather he focuses on each character at the individual level - what each brings to the battle, what each witnesses and experiences, and what each carries with him after. Well told. History comes alive masterfully, one of Shelby Foote's great contributions to our understanding of the Civil War.
    • 4/5
      -Shiloh warrants praise, for while it is a powerful novel- a spare, unrelenting account of two days of the battle in April 1862- it is also a stunning work of imaginative history, conveying not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but the inner movements of the combatants’ hearts and minds. Through the eyes of officers and illiterate foot soldiers, heroes and cowards, Shiloh creates a dramatic mosaic of a critical moment in the making of America, complete to the haze of gun smoke and the stunned expression in the eyes of dying men. Foote’s knowledge of the Civil War is incredibly and he manages to convey the facts of a dramatic moment in American history in a precise readable fashion. Even more amazing for a historian, he makes a moving, personable novel with all the characters having an understandable degree of humanity, something often missing from historical characters.
    • 5/5
      He said books about war were written to be read by God Amighty, because no one but God ever saw it that way. A book about war, to be read by men, ought to tell what each of the twelve of us saw in our own little corner. Then it would be the way it was -- not to God but to us. (from Chapter 6 of Shiloh)The above passage explains beautifully what Foote was doing when he wrote this book: he was writing a book the way it was for the men who were fighting, a book for people to read. Foote writes with the voices of various participants on both sides of the battle, giving us the limited perspective of each one, deftly (but subtly) guiding the different narrators across one anothers' paths -- or across the paths of individuals about whom other narrators have written -- to provide a sense of what it was like to be in the battle. There is no "bird's eye view" (or "God's eye view") of the battle as a whole, just the experiences of different participants and the limited knowledge they were able to obtain about what was going on at the time, but woven together to create an overall impression of the battle.The writing is superb, the descriptions vivid and gripping. I've read a lot about the Civil War, but by the time I finished this novel, I had a fresh appreciation what it must have been like to be a participant in battle.A rare 5-star book!
    • 5/5
      Foote is a born and bred Mississippian and he's a much touted historian of the Civil War, thanks to his monumental three-volume narrative of the C.W. (which I have still not broached). Here he turns to fiction and does a wonderful job expressing the horrors of war, through several different "Voices", from soldiers, both North and South.This passage describes the aftermath of an confrontation, witnessed by a young rifleman in the 6th Mississippi:"Our faces were gray, the color of ashes. Some had powder burns red on their cheeks and foreheads and running back into singed patches in their hair. Mouths were rimmed with grime from biting cartridges, mostly a long smear down one corner, and hands were blackened with burnt powder off the ramrods. We'd aged a lifetime since the sun came up."Highly recommended!
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite civil war era novels. Each chapter is another person's view of their part of the battle. I highly recommend this book. It captures the hell that was the battle of Shiloh.