Bruce Catton books

Bruce Catton was an American historian and journalist who became the most widely read Civil War writer of the twentieth century, winning the Pulitzer Prize for A Stillness at Appomattox in 1954.
Author · Non-Fiction · History · Military History · Civil War

Anthologies

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Non-Fiction Writing, Vol IV 1960 Buy
Grant, Lee, Lincoln and the Radicals: Essays on Civil War Leadership 2001 Buy
40 Model Essays 2005 Buy

Army of the Potomac Trilogy Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Mr. Lincoln’s Army 1962 Buy
Glory Road 1952 Buy
A Stillness at Appomattox 1951 Buy

Grant Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Grant Moves South 1960 Buy
Grant Takes Command 1863-1865 1969 Buy

Great Lakes Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens 1958 Buy
The Detroit Riot of 1967 1969 Buy
Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence 1972 Buy
Waiting for the Morning Train 1972 Buy
Call It North Country 1986 Buy
Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow 1987 Buy
Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It 1987 Buy
Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit 1990 Buy
Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit 1991 Buy
John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic 1991 Buy
Queen of the Lakes 1994 Buy
Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 1994 Buy
The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes 1994 Buy
Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit 1997 Buy
The Long Winter Ends 1998 Buy
All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement 1998 Buy
Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson 1998 Buy
Father Abraham’s Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War 1998 Buy
Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake 1999 Buy
A Sailor’s Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters 1999 Buy
“Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights”: Michigan, 1948-1968 2000 Buy
Graveyard of the Lakes 2000 Buy
Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America’s Freshwater Coast 2000 Buy
History of the Finns in Michigan 2001 Buy
Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 2002 Buy
Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors 2002 Buy
Michigan’s Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War 2003 Buy
Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation 2003 Buy
The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 2003 Buy
Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan 2003 Buy
A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law 2003 Buy
Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company 2003 Buy
Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum 2004 Buy
Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood 2004 Buy
To Keep the South Manitou Light 2004 Buy
“I Hope to Do My Country Service” : The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry 2005 Buy
The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy 2005 Buy
Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton 2005 Buy
Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan’s Rocks and Fossils 2005 Buy
My Forty Years With Ford 2006 Buy
House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education 2006 Buy
A Pocketful of Passage 2007 Buy
Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005 2007 Buy
A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke 2007 Buy
Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir 2007 Buy
When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45 2007 Buy
Who’s Jim Hines? 2008 Buy
Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors 2009 Buy
Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation 2009 Buy
The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights 2010 Buy
Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent 2011 Buy
Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006 2011 Buy
The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull 2011 Buy
Lake Superior Profiles : People on the Big Lake 2012 Buy
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics 2012 Buy
Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier’s Civil War Journal 2013 Buy
The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise 2013 Buy
The Colored Car 2013 Buy
Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II 2013 Buy
“Old Slow Town”: Detroit during the Civil War 2013 Buy
Great Girls in Michigan History 2015 Buy
Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit 2015 Buy
Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years 2015 Buy
Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933 2015 Buy
A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek 2016 Buy
Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes 2016 Buy
Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture 2017 Buy
To the Copper Country: Mihaela’s Journey 2017 Buy
Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities 2017 Buy
Survival and Regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian Community 2017 Buy
Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company 2018 Buy
Bold Boys in Michigan History 2018 Buy
John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age 2018 Buy
Rosie, A Detroit Herstory 2018 Buy
Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit 2020 Buy
What the Chickadee Knows 2020 Buy
A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan 2020 Buy
I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I 2020 Buy

Non-Fiction

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The War Lords Of Washington 1948 Buy
Banners at Shenandoah 1955 Buy
America Goes to War 1958 Buy
The Penguin Book of the American Civil War 1960 Buy
The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War 1960 Buy
The American Heritage New History of the Civil War 1960 Buy
The Civil War 1960 Buy
Gettysburg: The Final Fury 1963 Buy
Two Roads to Sumter 1963 Buy
Waiting for the Morning Train 1972 Buy
A Short History of the Civil War 1976 Buy
The Bold and Magnificent Dream 1978 Buy
The American Heritage: Short History Of The Civil War 1978 Buy
Bruce Catton’s America: Selections From His Greatest Works 1979 Buy
Reflections on the Civil War 1981 Buy
Bruce Catton’s Civil War 1984 Buy
Grant Moves South, 1861-1863 1990 Buy
Last Days of the Civil War: The Enormous Silence 2015 Buy
U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition 2015 Buy
Antietam 2016 Buy
The Battle of Gettysburg 2017 Buy
Shiloh 2017 Buy
The Meaning of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Chicago Historical Society, April 12, 1961 2018 Buy

States and the Nation Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
South Carolina 1976 Buy
Michigan 1976 Buy
Ohio 1976 Buy
New Mexico 1977 Buy
Nevada 1977 Buy
Wyoming 1977 Buy
Missouri 1977 Buy
Montana 1978 Buy
Mississippi 1979 Buy
New York 1981 Buy
Colorado 1984 Buy
Texas 1984 Buy
Kansas 1984 Buy
New Jersey 1984 Buy
West Virginia 1984 Buy
Rhode Island 1986 Buy
Minnesota 2000 Buy

The Centennial History of the Civil War Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Coming Fury 1961 Buy
Terrible Swift Sword 1962 Buy
Never Call Retreat 1965 Buy

Wordsworth Military Library Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Drama Of The Scharnhorst 1951 Buy
The Struggle for Europe 1952 Buy
The Crecy War 1955 Buy
This Hallowed Ground 1955 Buy
The Agincourt War 1956 Buy
The Generalship of Alexander the Great 1958 Buy
The Longest Day 1959 Buy
Julius Caesar 1965 Buy
Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses 1966 Buy
A Concise History of Warfare 1972 Buy
Queen Victoria’s Little Wars 1972 Buy
The Peninsular War 1973 Buy
Winston Churchill 1974 Buy
The Hussar General: The Life of Blücher, Man of Waterloo 1975 Buy
Rorke’s drift 1975 Buy
The Thin Yellow Line 1975 Buy
The Great Anglo-Boer War 1976 Buy
The Battle of Loos 1976 Buy
The English Civil War 1976 Buy
Rommel: The Trail of the Fox 1977 Buy
Battle of Britain 1980 Buy
The Great War 1980 Buy
Flying Colours: The Epic Story Of Douglas Bader 1981 Buy
The Right of the Line 1985 Buy
The Military Experience In The Age Of Reason 1987 Buy
The 1916 Battle of the Somme Reconsidered 1988 Buy
Business In Great Waters 1989 Buy
A Dictionary of Napoleonic Wars 1993 Buy
Crusades 1998 Buy
Aramada the Planning the Battle and After 1998 Buy
Slim: The Standardbearer: A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim 1999 Buy
Midway 2000 Buy
Guide to the Battlefields of Europe 2007 Buy

Bruce Catton grew up in Benzonia, Michigan, and worked as a journalist before turning to Civil War history. His Army of the Potomac Trilogy, beginning with Mr. Lincoln’s Army (1951) and concluding with A Stillness at Appomattox (1953), brought the Civil War to life for a popular audience through vivid narrative and a focus on the experiences of ordinary soldiers.

Catton went on to write The Centennial History of the Civil War, a three-volume overview marking the war’s hundredth anniversary. He also served as editor of American Heritage magazine. His writing is known for its clarity, its sympathy for the men who fought, and its ability to make complex campaigns understandable without oversimplifying them.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Bruce Catton written?

Bruce Catton has written 162 books across eight series.

What was Bruce Catton's first book?

Bruce Catton’s first book is The War Lords Of Washington, published in 1948.

What is Bruce Catton best known for?

Catton is best known for his Army of the Potomac Trilogy and his Centennial History of the Civil War. A Stillness at Appomattox won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award in 1954.

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