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One of America's great Civil War historians recounts his days growing up in Benzonia, a small town in Michigan's lower peninsula. During the first years of the 20th century (Catton was born in 1899), Catton listened to the tales of old Civil War veterans and gained an interest in the War Between the States that would never leave him. But this book, unlike Catton's other works, isn't primarily about the Civil War. It's about growing up in a particular time and a place. Written with grace, warmth, and wit, it describes an era of trains and timber. People who know and love the forests of northern Michigan will appreciate this book immensely, as will anybody who has enjoyed Catton's other books and wants to learn a little bit more about the historian who is one of America's great storytellers.
Customer Reviews:
A lament fior the 20th century.......2007-08-05
This book is generally considered a memoir of growing up in rural northern Michigan in the early 1900's, and it is; but it is also a lament for the 20th century. Catton contrasts the optimism of the America of his youth--it's faith in progress and in the future, it's belief that Americans could solve any problem with hard work, right thinking, and the guidance of Divine Providence--with the reality of national and world events that transpired from World War I through the Viet Nam era.
The mood of the book is reflective and even melancholy at times. I felt Catton was a concerned and discouraged man as he wrote this. He saw unlimited technological power as a frightening development and he had little faith in the ability of America or humankind in general to exhibit self-discipline in the use of such power.
It's a very thought-provoking book, and extremely relevant to today's world even 35 years after publication.
Boyhood Memoirs of a Literary Giant.......2003-05-14
I never met Bruce Catton, but I corresponded briefly with him in the mid-1970's. The same qualities that marked him as a correspondent--courtesy, graciousness, and gentle humor--illuminate this lovely memoir of a great historian.
Catton grew up in Benzonia, Michigan, "a city upon a hill," as he correctly notes, very close to Lake Michigan, where the old certitudes held seemingly invincible sway over virtually every aspect of one's daily life. Catton's father was the superintendent of Benzonia Academy, whose main building is now Benzonia's library.
The memoir, which recalls the years between the author's birth and his graduation from high school, is a series of reflections on what it was like to be a boy just as Michigan's logging era was drawing to a close, when sleepy Benzonia, along with the rest of the nation, was about to drift into the maw of the violent twentieth century. Catton writes of boyhood ambitions and boyish pranks, of the rich history that made Michigan's Lower Peninsula what it was, and especially of the Civil War veterans whose stories would later prompt Catton to devote years of his life to recording the history of that great conflict in rich anecdotal detail.
Though unabashedly nostalgic, "Waiting for the Morning Train" is neither saccharine nor bitter. Catton was far too experienced a writer and historian to let his emotions get the better of him. This is, nonetheless, a rich and moving memoir of a time which, though it may seem virtually within reach, we will never see again.
I recommend this book highly as a gift for yourself and, perhaps, for that reflective friend who can appreciate personal history told with universal appeal. Bruce Catton was, quite simply, one of the greatest writers and historians this country has produced, and in many ways this deceptively modest little volume represents the zenith of his literary achievement.
A plesant book to read.......2003-04-14
Bruce Catton was born in 1899 in Bezonia, Mich., a town of about 300 people then and now. Catton tells a lot about lumbering, tho he himself had little to do with lumbering. He graduated from Bezonia Academy in 1916, there being 11 in his class. The Academy closed in 1918. The book ends when Catton goes to college. It is a pleasant book to read, since Catton is a fine writer. But Jimmy Carter's book on his rural childhood I thought a more fetching read.
The boyhood of a giant.......2000-10-04
My interest in Waiting for the Morning Train lay not so much with Bruce Catton's being a giant of Civil War literature, but rather with his subject: Benzonia, Michigan, the place at which my family has taken vacation for decades (and where several family members now permanently reside). I could see the waters of Crystal Lake, the snow-covered hills of Beulah and Benzonia, and the lush birch, maple and pine forests of Northern Michigan as Catton knew them in his youth. Readers of Waiting for the Morning train will not only catch a glimpse of the spark that ignited Catton's pasion for the Civil War, but more importantly the story of a land that, if one tries hard enough, one will still find. Catton's boyhood stomping grounds come alive with tales of logging, weary travel by train and the fits of small towns being brought into a more modern era. The subtitle is An American Boyhood, and in Catton's childhood memoirs the reader will not only witness Catton's growth to manhood, but also the nation's emergence from adolecence to adulthood.
Civil War Historian grows up in Northwestern Michigan.......1999-04-21
Bruce Catton, winner of the Pulitzer, National Book Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom writes a little know memoir of his childhood of listening to the Civil War veterans tell tales of their Battery from Michigan that fought in the most famous battles in the War Between the States. How he was able to develop an almost transendent ability the listen and record in the far reaches of his sub conciousness the words and deeds that were told to him is remarkable. He would use the stories when he finally decided to put them down in his famous books that he didn't start until he was nearly at the age of fifty. But the book is also a statement on how the world has become a bunch of "Babbits" who put the motorcar above everything else. The metaphor he uses is the Mackinaw Bridge which was built in the late 50s to connect the Upper Penninsula to the lower so people would not have to wait in line for the ferry. Kafka said, "Because of impatience we were tossed out of Eden and because of impatience we can never return." Ironically Mackinac Island allows no cars and gets half a million plus tourists in the summer, where Maui has the finest weather in the world but no public transportation because people can't deal with the inconvience. Catton was very presient on this. The world finds itself in a place where we can't roll back to a slower time and now people want to drive tanks in the form of off road Vans. This book is also very readable and fun and in the intro his brother calls it his best book.
Customer Reviews:
Thoughtful Treatment.......2003-04-13
This is part of a 3 part series on the 1813 Campaign...Mr. Nafziger has given us a detailed and well researched account of the campaign. This thoughtful book gives the best recent account of Leipzig available in English. It is unfortunate that this decisive campaign is not the subject of more books.
For those of you unfamiliar with George Nafziger's work he is meticulous in his research and detail...if he tells you a regiment is located in a certain place at a particular time you can pretty much take it to the bank. Unlike a lot of authors, Mr. Nafziger does the research and allows the facts to dictate the direction of the book...Having no axes to grind means that the information being presented will also be more balanced than you find in a lot of books as well.
Generally when I see a book by George Nafziger in the time period that I don't own; I get it...
Michael La Vean
Fellow, International Napoleonic Society
Nafziger-the 1st class Napoleonic writer.......2000-03-06
Leipzig is the greatest and biggest battle of all Napoelonic battles ever fought. This is a shame that only G. Nafziger wrote book about this epic battle. I like this book. The maps are fine, and the descriptions of the battles, including the Battle of Leipzig, are interesting. But this book is rather for Americans and Europeans, not for the British. They are interested only in Waterloo, and Peter Hofschroer. This book is also a big stuff for all wargamers.
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The crucial three-day battle of Leipzig, known to posterity as the Battle of the Nations, was the biggest battle of the Napoleonic Wars. It was also one of Napoleon's worst defeats - Leipzig sealed the fate of Napoleon's empire. Now, in this superbly narrated account of the battle, Digby Smith describes the events of 16, 17, 18 and 19 October 1813, and stresses both the significance of the battle and the brutality of the fighting. At the height of the battle Napoleon fielded more than 200,000 men against an Allied force - which included contingents from Russia, Austria, Prussia and Sweden - of some 360,000 soldiers. Cornered against the River Estler, Napoleon, outnumbered and suffering heavily from the fire of 1,400 Allied guns, was soundly defeated, had to relinquish control of Germany and was forced back into France. Digby Smith's evocative account of Leipzig concentrates on the ferocious fighting, charts the fortunes of the three day struggle and underlines the incredible human cost of the battle. Using a wealth of first-hand accounts, many of them previously unpublished in English, he brings the dramatic struggle to life and demonstrates just what it was like for the average French, German, Russian, Prussian, Austrian or Swedish soldier to take part in the Battle of the Nations.
Customer Reviews:
Bitter anonymous critics.......2002-01-16
Two bitingly sour reviews of my book have been posted by `A Reader`, wishing to remain anonymous. From the similarity of style I would assume that both stem from the same pen. Obviously, I have got severely up someone`s nose; can it be because of my coolness towards Napoleon? Perhaps `A Reader` would have the courage to add his name to his work, as authors do.
More bad history by a Brit.......2001-12-18
This is one of the worst Napoleonic books I have ever read, chock full of meandering eye-witness accounts strung together with poor phrasing and writing. But what is the worst part of this book, and what is inexcusable, are the numerous mistakes of fact...so many of them that it is not worth the while of recounting all of them here. Simply put, if you want bad history, buy this book. If you want a decent treatment of the Battle of Nations, look elsewhere.
Leipzig Made Simple!.......2001-12-08
I have been struggling to find a manageable book about the Leipzig campaign for some time. It's a big battle and hard to find a good balance between extremely detailed (long-winded?) accounts, or accounts which are simply too basic and superficial. After all, it is THE battle of Napoleonic wars in terms of size and duration!
I found this Digby Smith book very accessible. He writes well, and the book is beter laid out than, say, the Bowden triology, which to my mind dont engage the reader as well, and focus unduly on the French perspective of the campaign - at the expense of the rest. Importantly for me, (and where he scores over the excellent Osprey title on Leipzig) he has a good set of orders of battle in the appendix. Digby Smith is always hot on providing lots of data in his books, and this book is no exception. Its not the extreme detail of a Nafziger orbat, but it tells you all you need to know. An excellent overall text, and, for me, just the right balance between content and detail - and in just one volume!
Grievous errors abound amidst many eye-witness accounts.......2001-10-06
Digby Smith, a.k.a. Otto von Pivka, makes a mess out of this effort to tackle the massive four-day struggle between the Emperor Napoleon I and his enemies. And after reading one certain "Five-Star" review in this column, this reviewer is left with the impression that such a high rating must be due to the fact that the "Five-Star" reviewer MUST be somehow in debt to Mr. Smith.
Factual errors---grievous ones at that---plague the book from the start. In fact, Chapter One is so riddled with mistakes, that one HAS to question the editorial capabilities of the publisher's staff. Only a few of these mistakes will be pointed out here. The author maintains on page 11 that by April, 1813, "Britain was pouring money and equipment into the coffers and depots of Napoleon's enemies via the Baltic." Such was not the case. The Allied powers were hard pressed to fund and supply their own efforts prior to the subsidy treaties between Britain/Prussia/Russia were concluded and signed in the middle of June (treaty with Prussia on 14 June; treaty with Russia on 15 June). Similar trouble crops up with Mr. Smith's handling of the Austrians, when he states on page 12 that "Austria joined the Allies...on 27 June 1813." The 27 June agreement DID NOT have the Austrians join the alliance, but rather authorized ultimatums to be delivered to Napoleon as the Allied price of peace. Austria later officially declared war on France in August.
Once the campaign begins, Smith's work seems to get worse. Smith claims on page 17 that Napoleon gave Marshal Ney command of the Army of the Bober on 15 August "with the aim of thrusting towards Berlin. This was, instead, Marshal Oudinot's Army of Berlin...Napoleon did not form the Army of the Bober until more than a week later, and it was under Marshal Macdonald. Smith then continues on a disastrous serious of mistaken identities. On August 22, Smith states that Oudinot, now as commander of the Army of the Bober, faced the Allies in Silesia. Then Smith claims on page 19 that on the following day, Oudinot, clashed with the Allied Army of the North "only 17 kilometers south of Berlin."
The mistakes go on and on and on and on. Example: In Chapter Two,on page 35, Mr. Smith claims that "under the terms of the Treaty of Tilst of 8 September 1808, Prussia's army had been limited to 42,000." It was the Treaty of Paris of 8 Septmber 1808 that limited the size of the Prussian army. Factual mistakes also show up often under the narrative of the Battle of Leipzig, such as Mr. Smith's claims on page 208 that Bulow's 3rd Prussian Corps was part of Blucher's Army of Silesia; rather, Bulow was with the Army of the North.
Sources are scant and without ANY French archival sources (these are easily accessed at the Chateau de Vincennes) and anaylsis is lacking in any detail or depth.
In the end, this is a treatment which seems to be aimed at an audience that enjoys lengthy eywitness accounts...and this is where the book's value may be found.
Decent Account of the "Battle of the Nations".......2001-03-29
I had great expectations when I started reading this book. As soon as I saw the cover I knew that I had to read it, since there have been so few decent accounts of this pivotal battle. At long last a new book on the 1813 battle of Leipzig, the `Battle of Nations'.
Alas it was not as good as I hoped. Although I found the research excellent and the first hand accounts very interesting the book was missing something. What it lacked, for me anyhow, was a story. The narrative was dry with lots of detail but it didn't seem to flow, to get you involved, as a good story should. I know the author is not writing a novel but a book that is just full of facts and details will lose its audience if its too dry to keep the reader awake.
I found the maps to be OK but I still found times when the author mentioned a place and I failed to locate it. This book will be of great benefit to the war-gamers and hardcore Napoleonic War readers. However for a person who is looking for a free flowing account that just pulls you into the story and at the same time gives you the facts required to understand what happened and why this book may be a hard slog.
Book Description
A classic account of a momentous battle Colonel Maude's analysis of Napoleon's campaign of 1813 around Leipzig, is yet another example of this author's careful and thorough examination of the respective armies of the protagonists and the thoughts, motivations and actions of the principal participants. Each decision is deliberated upon and explained, giving valuable insights into the strategies of the French and Coalition generals-as well as those of the Emperor himself-which led to one of the most decisive defeats suffered by an army under Napoleon's command during the Napoleonic Wars. Fought on German soil, with Germans on both sides, Leipzig is considered to be the largest battle ever fought in Europe prior to the First World War, and Maude's classic examination is accepted as a primary document for its study.
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Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus on the animals, plants, and other natural things you are most likely to see. They make it fun to get into the field and easy to progress to the full-fledged Peterson Guides.
Customer Reviews:
No good for a backyard birdwatcher.......2005-03-10
I bought this book just so that I could identify some of the birds at my backyard birdfeeder. So far, I've only been able to identify one from this book. The pictures and descriptions aren't very good, and it's very hard to narrow down the type of bird, since they're not organized by geographic area, etc. I would definitely recommend the National Audobon Society books over this one.
Great first book.......2000-06-04
My 7yo daughter and I have had great fun identifying the birds in our backyard with this little book. It features the most common birds one might see. I like how they how it organized by size and type of bird (all the water birds are together, all the birds of prey, all the smaller Fenches and Sparrows, etc. Easy to find that way. There was one bird drawing that was more colorful than the actual bird we saw. This might be due to the fact that they don't picture every type of one kind of bird. It is a GREAT first guide for kids and adults that are just starting. I like also that it shows the male and female of a type.
Great Reference.......1998-09-08
If you're looking for a book that will show you the male and female of the species, this is it. It gives size and tells where the birds winter. It has a picture of each bird and if the male and female differ in appearance, it has a picture of both. Great little book. Very reasonably priced
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