New book - "Voices of the Civil War"

[authorbarry]

Please excuse my excitement, but my new Civil War book, titled "Voices of the Civil War", released October 1, has reached #3 in Amazon's Best Sellers in Civil War History. Here's the link if you'd like to check it out. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DF4Q9WLH. Thanks.

 

[5fish]

Hi Barry, I have a question based on the summary of your book. Are you quoting historical figures or summarizing what you think they would say based on their past remarks... Similar to what Mike and Jeff Shara did in their fictional history books of the Civil War...

"Voices of the Civil War" by Barry Robbins is a book that presents the American Civil War through a unique lens by using fictionalized first-person narratives, allowing readers to experience the conflict through the eyes of various individuals like soldiers, civilians, presidents, and generals, essentially "hearing" their thoughts and perspectives on key events during the war, offering a deeply immersive look into the complexities and emotions of that tumultuous era

Voices of the Civil War (Voices of History)

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[authorbarry]

Hi and thanks for your interest.
The book is a series of vignettes (usually 3-4 pages each) with a "voice" (Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Beauregard, common folk and soldiers, etc.) speaking about a particular time or aspect of the Civil War (from 1819 through Lincoln's assassination). So it's kind of the Civil War up close and personal. The individual "quotes" of the vignettes are not actual quotes. That was not what I was trying to capture. Rather, they are my imaginings of what those figures might well have said or thought in those settings in an effort to be historically accurate but, even more, to show the human side of history.
I hope that answers your question. And I guess I should read the Sharas. I've heard of the books, but not yet read them.

-barry-