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| From: | chory | Sep-26 9:18 am |
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(1 of 5) | | | | 206.1 | |
Please help me find the best civil war novel for my neice, who is a civil war lover. I know she has read many, many books, but perhaps
someone out there could offer an idea. Maybe someone has a favorite
which might not be as well known as those which are regularly touted.
Thanks! |
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| From: | ml | Oct-1 7:31 pm |
| To: | chory unread |
(2 of 5) | | | | 206.2 in reply to 206.1 | |
I can't think of any novel other than Gone With the Wind at the moment, but does it have to be a novel?
If you niece doesn't have Mary Chestnut's Civil War, or The Private Mary Chestnut, she might like them. http://tinyurl.com/y8j6nu9
There are a lot of other Civil War journals, letters and diaries which I think make fascinating reading.
An abe search with diary, journal or letters in the title field, and civil war in the keywords field, will get lots of hits.
Is she interested in battles, strategy, etc, or in people?
I've read some Civil War books, including Mary Chestnut and Washington during the civil war, but it's not a specialty of mine.
I do know though, that for the periods of history I'm interested in, I want to read non-fiction, and would be most disappointed if someone gave me a novel.
She'd probably welcome a gift certificate for books, too. |
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| From: | pembe | Oct-15 1:42 am |
| To: | chory unread |
(3 of 5) | | | | 206.3 in reply to 206.1 | |
A little off the beaten track, I believe: a couple of civil-war period books by Frances Parkinson Keyes, rather dated now but still good reading, let me think, Madame Castel's Lodger, a fictionalised version of the life of Beauregard; and The Chess Players, which includes a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in Paris by Lafayette. Both books were very thoroughly researched.
And one I hugely enjoyed just a few years ago, Shaman by Noah Gordon, about a British doctor who ends up living among the Indians in ?Illinois, and who, with his son, also a doctor, observes and doctors during the Civil War.
And let's not forget that Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was set during the Civil War! How old is your niece? |
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The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. It won a Pulizter Prize. It is about Gettysburg and is one of the best civil war novels ever writte
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| Another Pulitzer Prize winner, Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor. One of my favorite books of any kind. |
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