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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Decision Games Historical & War Gaming Books (Decision Games) Quest for Annihilation, The - The Role & Mechanics of Battle in the American Civil War (SW (MINT/New)) Manufacturer: Decision Games Product Line: Historical & War Gaming Books (Decision Games) Type: Hardcover Code: DCG9001 Copyright Date: 2009 Author: Christopher Perello Page Count: 312 Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is SW (MINT/New). Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description: Civil War came to the United States when the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861. Most people, including the military and political leaders of both sides, thought the war would be won or lost quickly in the Napoleonic tradition, with a great battlefield collision. Instead, the war ground on for four increasingly bloody years, inching steadily but slowly into the Southern heartland. Battles were frequent, but rarely decided more than the control of a single town or a few blood-soaked fields. The Quest for Annihilation examines the nature of those battles and the reasons they failed to produce a decisive end to the war. The book is loaded with detail â" and copiously illustrated with more than 220 maps, plus more than 100 diagrams, photographs, orders of battle, and data tables â" describing the war's unique combat, fought on the cusp between the era of single-shot muzzle-loaders and that of automatic weapons. Each chapter uses the events of a single battle or campaign to describe the component parts of one aspect of the war: how armies were formed, trained, and moved; how commanders decided whether to fight or avoid battle; the men, their weapons and drill; the leaders and the techniques they used to bring it all together at the right place and right time.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Stiff unmarked book in glossy dust jacket.; 312 pages.