This reads like a thesis for a doctorate - not a book designed for
popular consumption. In recapitulating step by step Sherman's march
through Georgia and north again, the author follows a comparable
literary tactic. Whatever interesting prospects may lure him, he
hews undeviatingly to military, political, economic lines. He
forages freely off pertinent facts. He avoids emotional or even
human byways. Like Sherman's forward drive, his recounting advances
like a piledriver, the pace has a kind of mental lockstep. The book
may be bluntly summed up thus:- it is cold and exact, never warmed
up by human bits concerning Sherman, his troops, or the victims.
The result- the total impact fails to come through. The story has
been better told. (Kirkus Reviews)
In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his
march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats,
greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward
from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was
more convinced than ever that the bold application of his ideas of
total war could speedily end the conflict. John Barrett's story of
what happened in the three months that followed is based on printed
memoirs and documentary records of those who fought and of the
civilians who lived in the path of Sherman's onslaught. The burning
of Columbia, the battle of Bentonville, and Joseph E. Johnston's
surrender nine days after Appomattox are at the center of the
story, but Barrett also focuses on other aspects of the campaign,
such as the undisciplined pillaging of the 'bummers,' and on its
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authors discuss the city's physical evolution in the context of
political, economic, and cultural developments. They also examine
recent restoration efforts in Old Havana, commercial development
projects throughout the city, and the impact of tourism.
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