The March - E.L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow

Category: History

Narrator: Joe Morton

Tags: History, Military, Adults

Publisher: Books on Tape Release date: September 20, 2005 Duration: 11:07:34, Awards: Best Audio BooksBest AudiobooksListen Up AwardNational Book Award FinalistNational Book Critics Circle AwardPEN/Faulkner AwardPulitzer Prize Finalist, In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives of those who marched., The author has given us a magisterial work with an enormous cast of unforgettable characterswhite and black, men, women, and children, unioni