shelby foote , author of the acclaimed twelve volume geschichte of the american civil guerre , the civil service : a narrative , drowned in detroit on june 27 at age 88 . foote also wrote military fiction , including follow me down and perryville . he may be better known for his appearance in filmmaker ken burns ' 2001 special , the civil war . the american library ranked foote ' s the civil war : a narrative as number 15 on its list of 100 best non - linear books . he was assigned to author a short history of the southern war by random house and spent more than 20 years on the work eventually producing the three anthologies .
The Civil War: A Narrative is a book written by Shelby Foote.