A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
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, U…
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Weitere Autoren: Hsieh, Wayne Wei-Siang
- ISBN: 978-0-691-16940-8
- EAN: 9780691169408
- Produktnummer: 19708335
- Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 616 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.1 cm x D5.0 cm 1'021 g
- Gewicht: 1021
Über den 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. They both live in Fairfax, Virginia.
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