Savage War (eBook)

A Military History of the Civil War

Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray (Autoren)

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2018
616 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8937-2 (ISBN)

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How the Civil War changed the face of warThe Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. A Savage War sheds critical new light on this defining chapter in military history.In a masterful narrative that propels readers from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox, Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh bring every aspect of the battlefield vividly to life. They show how this new way of waging war was made possible by the powerful historical forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, yet how the war was far from being simply a story of the triumph of superior machines. Despite the Union's material superiority, a Union victory remained in doubt for most of the war. Murray and Hsieh paint indelible portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and other major figures whose leadership, judgment, and personal character played such decisive roles in the fate of a nation. They also examine how the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Northern Virginia, and the other major armies developed entirely different cultures that influenced the war's outcome.A military history of breathtaking sweep and scope, A Savage War reveals how the Civil War ushered in the age of modern warfare.

Autor

Williamson Murray is professor emeritus of history at Ohio State University. His many books include The Iran-Iraq War. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh is associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of West Pointers and the Civil War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.5.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Ambrose Burnside • American Civil War • Ammunition • Army • Army of Northern Virginia • Army of Tennessee • Army of the Cumberland • Army of the Ohio • Army of the Potomac • Army of the Tennessee • artillery • artillery battery • Battle • battle of antietam • Battle of Chancellorsville • Blockade • Braxton Bragg • brigadier general • Brigadier general (United States) • Carl von Clausewitz • Cavalry • chief engineer • Confederate States Army • confederate states of America • Conscription • counterattack • decisive victory • Desertion • Don Carlos Buell • Field army • field commander • Fortification • Fort Sumter • Franco-Prussian War • General officers in the Confederate States Army • Gunboat • Henry Halleck • infantry • Infrastructure • J. E. B. Stuart • John Bell Hood • jubal early • junior officer • Military advisor • military campaign • military history • Military Operation • Military organization • Military Strategy • militia • Missionary Ridge • musket • Napoleon • napoleonic wars • Nathan Bedford Forrest • Northern Army (Japan) • Northern Virginia • Officer (armed forces) • Oliver O. Howard • on war • Peninsula Campaign • pickett's charge • Politician • Politics • Regiment • regular army • Regular Army (United States) • Reinforcement • Rout • Secession • seven days battles • Shenandoah Valley • Sherman's March to the Sea • Skirmisher • Slavery • stonewall jackson • strategist • Superiority (short story) • Tennessee River • the carolinas • Thucydides • Total War • troop • Uncertainty • union army • Union navy • united states army • vicksburg campaign • war • War Department (United Kingdom) • war effort • warfare • War of attrition • Weapon • Western Theater of the American Civil War • white southerners • William Rosecrans • William Tecumseh Sherman • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8937-5 / 1400889375
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8937-2 / 9781400889372