Commanding The Storm. Civil War Battles In The Words Of The Generals Who Fought Them

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Lyons Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 320 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe what they and their men experienced at twelve of the wars most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from letters, memoirs, reports, and testimonies. They relate noted incidents and personal triumphs and tragedies while covering strategies and explaining battlefield decisions. Trench warfare at Petersburg and Shermans scorched earth policy in Georgia foreshadowed the world wars to come, and technological advancementssuch as armored steamships, landmines, and machine gunsliterally changed the landscape of war. Submarines and a time bomb even came into play. Informative biographies and headnotes for each battle give parallel statistics at a glance and establish context; sidebars cover notable tactics and technologies, including espionage, aerial reconnaissance, and guerilla warfare; and a concise roll-call outline each commanders life in full after the war. Here, from the men who conducted and controlled it, is an invaluable sourcebook of what happened in the War Between the States and why.

ISBN: 9780762787906