The American Civil War : a military history / John Keegan.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009الطبعات:1st edوصف:xvi, 396 pages, [16] pages. of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780307263438
- 0307263436
- E470 .K255 2009
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E470 .K255 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000048016 |
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E470 .H553 1996 The Civil War in the Writings of Col. G. F. R. Henderson | E470 J44 1999 Jefferson Davis's generals / | E470 J44 1999 Jefferson Davis's generals / | E470 .K255 2009 The American Civil War : a military history / | E470 L43 1995 Leadership and command in the American Civil War / | E470 .L9 1988 The military legacy of the Civil War : the European inheritance | E470 R33 1993 Combined operations in the Civil War / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373) and index.
North and South divide -- Will there be a war? -- Improvised armies -- Running the war -- The military geography of the Civil War -- The life of the soldier -- Plans -- McClellan takes command -- The war in middle America -- Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West -- Chancellorsville and Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Cutting the Chattanooga-Atlanta link -- The overland campaign and the fall of Richmond -- Breaking into the South -- The battle off Cherbourg and the Civil War at sea -- Black soldiers -- The home fronts -- Walt Whitman and wounds -- Civil War generalship -- Civil War battle -- Could the South have survived? -- The end of the war.
Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography.