Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

by B. H. Liddell Hart

Overview

When Liddell Hart's Sherman was first published in 1929, it received encomiums such as these:

"A masterly performance . . . one of the most thorougly dignified, one of the most distinguished biographies of the year." — Henry Steele Commager, New York Herald Tribune

"It is not often that one comes upon a biography that is so well done as this book. Nearly every page bears evidence of the fact that it is the product of painstaking and exhaustive research, mature thought, and an expert understanding of the subject in hand . . ." — Saturday Review of Literature

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306805073
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	03/22/1993
Edition description:	1st Da Capo Press Edition
Pages:	474
Sales rank:	793,214
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895-1970) was one of the foremost military theorists of our time. His many books include Scipio Africanus, Lawrence of Arabia, The Rommel Papers, and Sherman (all available from Da Capo Press).

Table of Contents

I	The Mould	1
II	Soldier and Civilian in California	23
III	An Anchorage in the South	51
IV	Study of a Realist in Wonderland	66
V	Bull Run and Kentucky	83
VI	The Key to the War	96
VII	The First Offensive in the West	112
VIII	Shiloh	120
IX	The Campaign of 1862 in the East	137
X	The Paralysis of the North	141
XI	The First Attempt on Vicksburg	157
XII	The Manoeuvres Against Vicksburg, 1863	176
XIII	The Fall of Vicksburg and Its Sequel	193
XIV	Back to Tennessee--Chattanooga	208
XV	The Command in the West, 1864	223
XVI	On the Road to Atlanta--the Resaca Manoeuvre	231
XVII	The Oostenaula-Chattahoochee Duel	253
XVIII	"Atlanta Is Ours and Fairly Won"	272
XIX	The Birth of a Plan	308
XX	Marching Through Georgia	331
XXI	Through the Carolinas--Cutting the Roots of the Confederacy	356
XXII	The Collapse of the Confederacy	380
XXIII	Epilogue	403
	Sources	432
	Index	443