A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 - Hardcover

Weigley, Russell F.

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ISBN 10: 0253337380 ISBN 13: 9780253337382

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2000

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Book by Weigley Russell F

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The scale and the sophistication of A Great Civil War put it on a level with James McPherson's epic Battle Cry of Freedom * Denis Showalter, President, Society for Military History *

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A Great Civil War is a major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity nearly 150 years after the war's end. In personal as well as historical terms, more even than the war for independence, the Civil War has been the defining experience of American democracy. A lifelong student of both strategy and tactics, Weigley also brings to his account a deep understanding of the importance of individuals from generals to captains to privates. He can put the reader on the battlefield as well as anyone who has ever written about war. All of the important engagements are covered, and he does it countless times in A Great Civil War. From Fort Sumter to the early clashes in the West and border states to the naval encounters in the East and on through the great and horrible battles whose names resound in American history-Shiloh, Corinth, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Antietam, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Appomattox. A brilliant narrator of battle action and historical events, Weigley is never content merely to tell a good story. Every student of war will find new insights and interpretations at the strategic and the tactical level. There are firm judgments throughout of the leaders on both sides of the conflict. A Great Civil War also analyzes the politics of both sides in relationship to battlefield situations. Weigley is unique in his ability to put all of the pieces on the board at once; the reader understands as never before how war and politics (and individuals) interacted to produce the infinitely complex story which is the Civil War. As with any major work, there are themes and subtexts, explicit and implicit: Both sides began the war with strategic and tactical concepts based on Napoleon which were already obsolete because of changes in technology-and both sides struggled throughout the war to develop new strategic and tactical procedures. The Civil War was g

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0253337380
• ISBN 13: 9780253337382
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 648