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Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Interactive Edition)

An Illustrated History

Author Geoffrey C. Ward On Tour, Ric Burns, Ken Burns On Tour
Enhanced Ebook
Knopf
On sale Aug 18, 2015 | 448 Pages | 9781101947289
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This interactive eBook has been optimized for reading on the iPad.

This deluxe interactive eBook brings the Civil War to life in a new way by combining video and audio from Ken Burns’s beloved film with interactive maps, timelines, and slideshows.
 
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, and allow us to better understand and appreciate the greatest challenge our nation has ever faced.
 
This new edition includes:

   • A new preface commemorating the 25th anniversary of the original broadcast of the PBS documentary.

   • 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.

   • An interactive map that explores troop movements for major battles of the war.

   • A Who’s Who of the military leadership of the Civil War to match and compare generals from each side.

   • An interactive timeline of major events of the war. 

   • Original animated maps of the three days at Gettysburg that make it easier than ever to follow this legendary and complicated battle.

   • High-resolution slideshows of hundreds of rare photographs as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps in full color.

   • Pop-up essays that allow further exploration into cultural and historical subjects that affected life during wartime, including photographs and video.
 
  • WINNER | 1991
    Lincoln Prize
© Diane Raines Ward
GEOFFREY C. WARD, historian and screenwriter, is the author of nineteen books, including A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written or cowritten many documentary films, including The War, The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Mark Twain, Not for Ourselves Alone, and Jazz. View titles by Geoffrey C. Ward
RIC BURNS is a documentary filmmaker best known for directing the award-winning PBS series New York, which he wrote with James Sanders. He is also known for his work on The Civil War, which he produced with his brother, Ken. Since 1990, he has directed nearly fifty hours of prime-time programming for PBS, and the films have received seven Emmy Awards, three Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards, and two Peabody Awards, among others. View titles by Ric Burns
© Michael Avedon
KEN BURNS, the producer and director of numerous film series, including Vietnam, The Roosevelts, and The War, founded his own documentary film company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His landmark film The Civil War was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television, and his work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire. View titles by Ken Burns

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This interactive eBook has been optimized for reading on the iPad.

This deluxe interactive eBook brings the Civil War to life in a new way by combining video and audio from Ken Burns’s beloved film with interactive maps, timelines, and slideshows.
 
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, and allow us to better understand and appreciate the greatest challenge our nation has ever faced.
 
This new edition includes:

   • A new preface commemorating the 25th anniversary of the original broadcast of the PBS documentary.

   • 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.

   • An interactive map that explores troop movements for major battles of the war.

   • A Who’s Who of the military leadership of the Civil War to match and compare generals from each side.

   • An interactive timeline of major events of the war. 

   • Original animated maps of the three days at Gettysburg that make it easier than ever to follow this legendary and complicated battle.

   • High-resolution slideshows of hundreds of rare photographs as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps in full color.

   • Pop-up essays that allow further exploration into cultural and historical subjects that affected life during wartime, including photographs and video.
 

Awards

  • WINNER | 1991
    Lincoln Prize

Author

© Diane Raines Ward
GEOFFREY C. WARD, historian and screenwriter, is the author of nineteen books, including A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written or cowritten many documentary films, including The War, The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Mark Twain, Not for Ourselves Alone, and Jazz. View titles by Geoffrey C. Ward
RIC BURNS is a documentary filmmaker best known for directing the award-winning PBS series New York, which he wrote with James Sanders. He is also known for his work on The Civil War, which he produced with his brother, Ken. Since 1990, he has directed nearly fifty hours of prime-time programming for PBS, and the films have received seven Emmy Awards, three Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards, and two Peabody Awards, among others. View titles by Ric Burns
© Michael Avedon
KEN BURNS, the producer and director of numerous film series, including Vietnam, The Roosevelts, and The War, founded his own documentary film company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His landmark film The Civil War was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television, and his work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire. View titles by Ken Burns

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