Don't Know Much About the Civil War

Don't Know Much About the Civil War

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis

“Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review

“Lively and relevant.” —USA Today


Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events—Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe—and much more.

Drawing on moving eyewitness accounts, Davis includes a wealth of “hidden history” about the roles played by women and African Americans before and during the war, along with lesser-known facts that will enthrall even learned Civil War buffs. Vivid, informative, and hugely entertaining, Don’t Know Much About the Civil War is the only audiobook you’ll ever need on “the war that never ended.”©1996 Kenneth C. Davis & Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing; (P)1996 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House Inc.

Every breath you take

I could hear every breath you take for gods sake ..Very annoying after every sentence the narrator took a deep breath into the mirco-phone after I noticed it I heard nothing else..Esp if wearing headphones..Other than that the information was given a way that Only Kenneth C. Davis can (Fun.)

Great Book for the Civil War Buff

I bought this book for my roommate who is a civil war buff. I mean he reads lots of book on the topic. He loved this audible book. He actually listened to it twice back to back. He said he learned alot of tidbits about what was actually going on during the time period that he really didn't get from other books. After this book I went out and bougth 3 other, You don't Know much about...books and none have been as good as this one.

Low-hassle overview of the basics of the war

I didn't want a blow by blow rehearsal of every battle. I wanted the background, contributing factors, results... and a little decoding of the civil war special words and ideas. I wanted to be conversant on the topic without wading through all of the minutia. This book did exactly that. There are little irritations in the technical elements of the production, but the content was right on target.

Informative, but beware of bias

The audiobook is good for obtaining facts and contains some interesting trivia. It is well structured, dry, but informative. However, the author's bias is clear. He is dismissive of any interpretation other than the traditional text book account of the origins and causes of the war. His insinuations about the motives of indivual Southerners and the collective South are generalized, shallow and insulting. Since his books are aimed at people who "don't know much about" a particular subject, it seems that Mr. Davis uses his platform to indoctrinate the "great unwashed" novice audience. I have read other books by this author and found this to be the case in those books as well.