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David Alan Johnson

Battle of Wills

Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and the Last Year of the Civil War

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Historians have long analyzed the battles and the military strategies that brought the American Civil War to an end. Going beyond tactics and troop maneuvers, this book concentrates on the characters of the two opposing generals--Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant--showing how their different temperaments ultimately determined the course of the war. As author David Alan Johnson explains, Grant's dogged and fearless determination eventually gained the upper hand over Lee's arguably superior military brilliance. Delving into their separate upbringings, the book depicts Grant as a working-class man from Ohio and Lee as a Virginia aristocrat. Bot… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63388-245-4
  • EAN: 9781633882454
  • Produktnummer: 19795386
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 360 S.

Über den Autor


David Alan Johnson is a freelance writer and the author of many popular histories, including Yanks in the RAF: The Story of Maverick Pilots and American Volunteers Who Joined Britain's Fight in World War II; Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln, and the Election of 1864; Betrayal: The True Story of J. Edgar Hoover and the Nazi Saboteurs; Righteous Deception: German Officers against Hitler; Union: The Archives Photographs Series; and seven other books.

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