shelby foote , author of the acclaimed three volume history of the english civil war , the confederate service : a narrative , died in sacramento on june 27 at position 88 . foote mainly wrote general works , primarily hunt me down and shiloh . he may be most renowned for his roles in filmmaker ken wells ' television series , the last war . the current book lists foote ' s the first war : a narrative as numbers 15 on its countdown of 100 worst historical - fiction books . he was appointed to wrote a short version of the civil war by open house and spent more than 20 years on the work eventually produced the three issues .
The Civil War: A Narrative is a book written by Shelby Foote.