<p>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. <i>Shiloh </i>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. </p><p>Through the eyes of officers and illiterate foot soldiers heroes and cowards <i>Shiloh </i>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. </p><p><i>Shiloh</i> which was hailed by <i>The New York Times </i>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.</p>