Shiloh

A Novel

By: Shelby Foote

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

This fictional recreation 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 gun smoke 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 chronicle of the Civil War.

©1952 Shelby Foote (P)2019 Tantor

the reader

I really liked the series.I wish it was a little bit longer very interesting read

The history

Very good at outlining the battle and the people there very good putting in the action

Unusual Structure, but it works

It was a bit disjointed at times and many of the major characters don't have any speaking lines. of course, that is the point.

Great so detailed

He really did an amazing job with this little book wish it was longer otherwise 5 stars and great voice for the audio

Foote reveals a more personal side of his Civil War interest

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.