Combining video and audio from Ken Burns’s beloved film with animated maps and hundreds of images—rare photographs as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps in full color—this deluxe eBook brings the Civil War to life in a new way. The acclaimed, best-selling companion volume to the celebrated PBS series—the highest-rated series in the history of public television—has now been enhanced to create one of the richest eBook experiences available today. This edition includes: • Nearly an hour of video and audio from the original film. We get wonderful footage re-creating what life was like during the war, Shelby Foote’s peerless storytelling and analysis, and informed commentary from other prominent historians. • Completely new and original animated maps of the three days at Gettysburg that make it easier than ever to follow this legendary and complicated battle. • Hundreds of illustrations carefully placed to maximize the reading experience without impeding the narrative flow of the text. As we mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, this deluxe eBook allows us to better understand and appreciate the greatest challenge our nation has ever faced.

この作品は、米国最大の試練を単なる記録ではなく、無数に散った無名の人々が織りなす「魂の叙事詩」として昇華させています。研ぎ澄まされた言葉は、凄惨な戦場に漂う孤独や家族への切実な思慕を鮮明に描き出し、読者は歴史の奔流に飲み込まれる個人の葛藤を、痛切なまでのリアリティをもって追体験することになります。 伝説的なドキュメンタリー映像とテキストが融合した本作は、映像版の持つ哀愁漂う語りと、書籍版が促す深い思索の「静寂」を見事に共鳴させています。視覚的な躍動と文字による洞察が補完し合うことで、単なる鑑賞を超えた、歴史の深淵と対峙する濃密な知的興奮を約束してくれるでしょう。