The Army Of The Potomac: Gen. Mcclellan'S Report Of Its Operations While Under His Command ; With Maps And Plans - Softcover

Brinton McClellan, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9354500110 ISBN 13: 9789354500114

Verlag: Alpha Editions, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Before the headlines, there were orders, routes, and reckoning. In The Army of the Potomac, General George B. McClellan sets down his own union army official report of operations while he commanded the Army of the Potomac. See strategy meet hard ground. Written as a civil war campaign report and supported by illustrated battle maps and civil war battlefield plans, this is the kind of document commanders filed, politicians debated, and later historians mined. McClellan traces logistics, intelligence, and decision-making across the eastern theater civil war, shaping a coherent army of the potomac history that readers can follow mile by mile through virginia civil war campaigns and beyond. The emphasis on union command strategy - what was known, what was feared, what could be moved when - makes the volume a vivid primary source civil war, and a dependable civil war history reference alongside the official records union army. For researchers it offers the complete mcclellan report in its original voice; for general readers it provides a clear line through the fog of command, with maps and plans that turn place-names into terrain. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this classic account has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it belongs on the shelf of anyone building a serious library of American history, as well as anyone who simply wants to understand how the Union fought, planned, and learned as America fractured.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9354500110
• ISBN 13: 9789354500114
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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