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The Training Ground - Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (Paperback)
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The Training Ground - Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (Paperback)
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List price R670
Loot Price R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
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For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed
as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American
landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same uniform
and fought together. In "The Training Ground," acclaimed historian
Martin Dugard presents the saga of how, two decades before the
Civil War, a group of West Point graduates--including Robert E.
Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and
William Tecumseh Sherman--fought together as brothers. Drawing on a
range of primary sources and original research, Dugard paints a
gripping narrative of the Mexican War, which eventually almost
doubled the size of the United States. "The Training Ground"
vividly takes us into the thick brush of Palo Alto, where a musket
ball narrowly misses Grant but kills a soldier standing near him;
through the mountains and ravines of Cerro Gordo, as Lee searches
frantically for a secret route into the Mexican army's seemingly
invincible position; to Monterrey, as future enemies Davis and
Grant ride together into battle; down the California coast, where
war-hungry Sherman seeks blood and vengeance. And we are there as
the young troops mount the final heroic--and deadly--assault on
Mexico City. With narrative verve and brilliant research, "The
Training Ground" brings to light a story of brotherhood, sacrifice,
and initiation by fire.
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