With My Face To The Enemy. Perspectives On The American Civil War

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: PIMLICO
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 522 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: WITH MY FACE TO THE ENEMY is a provocative and wide-ranging anthology of essays on the Civil War -Americas defining struggle and the first modern war in history. In thirty-five illuminating essays it examines the war from the perspectives critical to its outcome -the larger-than-life personalities of the important players from Lincoln to Lee, and the national strategies and key battle tactics that shaped the four-year-long crisis. Contributors include the leading lights of Civil War scholarship: James M. McPherson, Stephen W. Sears, Gary W. Gallagher, David Herbert Donald and twenty others. James M. McPhersons essays ponder three diverse, yet fascinating subjects: Abraham Lincolns use of language and its role in his victory; Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lees failed Southern strategies; and Ulysses S. Grants memoirs as a reflection of his superlative generalship. Stephen W. Sears, in four essays, describes the daring flanking manoeuvres of Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorville, and presents the last word on Lees infamous lost order, among other topics. Other highlights include David Herbert Donald on Lincolns early command; Gary W. Gallagher on Lees record before his ascension as a Southern icon; John Bowers on Chickamauga; Noah Andre Trudeau on the battle of the Wilderness; Thomas Fleming on West Point, and much more.

ISBN: 9780712679466