A Short History of the Civil War (eBook)

Ordeal by Fire

Fletcher Pratt (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
448 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-32004-5 (ISBN)

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Best one-volume history brings the events, figures, and battles of monumental conflict vividly to life. Absorbing details of military campaigns, battlefield strategies, and personalities revealed in an audacious style.

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Novelist, historian, and critic Bernard De Voto calls this book the "best one-volume history of the Civil War I've ever read." David Madden, Director of the United States Civil War Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, considers it "the most powerful of all short histories of the Civil War published since the Depression." These and many other authorities have been won over by the author's profound grasp of the great conflict, and also by his conceptual power, narrative drive, and muscular prose.Now Civil War buffs and general readers alike can enjoy the noted historian's audacious, staccato-like style as he brings the events, figures, and campaigns of the War Between the States vividly to life. Beginning in Washington, D.C., on the day of Lincoln's inauguration, the narrative moves swiftly on to the battles of Bull Run, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Wilderness, and, ultimately, to Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.Avoiding footnotes and other academic trappings, the author describes in absorbing, highly readable detail the drama of military campaigns and battlefield strategies, studding his narrative with fascinating anecdotes and asides on Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Sherman, Jackson, and other leaders. Enhanced with 50 maps of battle sites, this fascinating popular history will thrill any Civil War buff and will also appeal to a wide audience of general readers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Schlagworte: 1861 • 1935 • american civil • american military • Appomattox • armed • army thinking • battle cry • Battlefield • books on american militaries • books on battle cries • books on bruce cattons • books on bull runs • books on changed histories • books on cliff notes • books on decisive battles • books on military events • books on military historians • books on military histories • books on officer corps • books on one-volume histories • books on peloponnesian wars • books on persian empires • books on professional officers • books on researched histories • books on sharp edges • books on shelby foote • books on slavery issues • books on union generals • books on volume histories • books on war histories • books on western theaters • bruce catton • Bull Run • campaigns • changed history • Charleston • Civil War • civil war history • cliff notes • commanders • Compact • confederates • creasy • decisive battles • Doctrine • Dorn • Eisenhower • Fredericksburg • Gettysburg • ineffably • kagan • Lincoln • Linn • Managers • mcpherson • military events • military historian • military history • military thinkers • muddy • Navy • officer corps • one-volume history • Patton • Peloponnesian War • Persian Empire • Potomac • professional officer • reconstruction • researched history • Salamanders • sharp edge • shelby foote • Shenandoah • Sherman • slavery issue • solidly • stands head • Stones • strategic • Strategy • Supported • Tennessee • texas christian • tight storytelling • Trudeau • union generals • Untold • Vicksburg • Victory • volume history • war buff • War history • weigley • Western civilization • western theater • Wilderness • woodworth
• ISBN-10: 0-486-32004-9 / 0486320049
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-32004-5 / 9780486320045