{"product_id":"9780679601128","title":"Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863 (Modern Library Series)","description":"Shelby Foote's monumental three-part chronicle of the Civil War was hailed by Walker Percy as \"an unparalleled achievement, an American \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist.\"\u003cp\u003eDrawn from Foote's acclaimed and massive \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War: A Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e - the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch - this new addition to the Modern Library offers a matchless account of the epic Gettysburg Campaign.  Complete with detailed maps, \u003ci\u003eStars in Their Courses\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly re-creates the three-day conflict: it is a masterly treatment of a key great battle and the events that preceded it - not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gettysburg... is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that, at last, what happened in the battle [can be understood],\" said \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016845639920,"sku":"9780679601128","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679601128_p0.jpg?v=1763607566","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679601128","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}