Ambrose Bierce's Civil War - Annotated (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Journalist, short story writer, a poet, and critic Ambrose Bierce was one of America's greatest wits and an uncompromising satirist. He wrote with haunting realism of his Civil War experiences. His finest and most famous Civil War writings are gathered in this volume of six essays and twenty stories. Includes detailed biographical timeline.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Journalist, short story writer, a poet, and critic Ambrose Bierce has been called one of America's greatest wits and an uncompromising satirist. He wrote unsparingly and with haunting realism of his Civil War experiences. His finest and most famous Civil War writings are gathered in this volume of six essays and twenty stories, including "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "What I Saw of Shiloh," and "A Horseman in the Sky." Edited and introduced by William McCann, this annotated Warbler Classics edition also includes a detailed biographical timeline of Bierce's personal and professional life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The most important American writer who served as a combat soldier in the Civil War" ―<em>Booklist</em></p><p>"Bierce is a master of apprehension, always alert to threat. It's as if every charged moment of his military service were still etched in his memory, persisting as only the most disturbing sensations can." --Terrence Rafferty, <em>The New York Times </em></p><p>"The Civil War stories...are admired for more than just their documentary value: 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, ' with its death's head japes and narrative somersaults, is considered by critics to be one of the finest 'experimental' American stories of the period." --Bill Marx, <em>Columbia Journalism Review</em></p><br>
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