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A Savage War - A Military History of the Civil War (Paperback)
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A Savage War - A Military History of the Civil War (Paperback)
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How the Civil War changed the face of war The Civil War represented
a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the
projection of military might across a continent on a scale never
before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet
despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders
faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed
combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.
A Savage War sheds critical new light on this defining chapter in
military history. In a masterful narrative that propels readers
from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender of
Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox, Williamson Murray and Wayne
Wei-siang Hsieh bring every aspect of the battlefield vividly to
life. They show how this new way of waging war was made possible by
the powerful historical forces unleashed by the Industrial
Revolution and the French Revolution, yet how the war was far from
being simply a story of the triumph of superior machines. Despite
the Union's material superiority, a Union victory remained in doubt
for most of the war. Murray and Hsieh paint indelible portraits of
Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and
other major figures whose leadership, judgment, and personal
character played such decisive roles in the fate of a nation. They
also examine how the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Northern
Virginia, and the other major armies developed entirely different
cultures that influenced the war's outcome. A military history of
breathtaking sweep and scope, A Savage War reveals how the Civil
War ushered in the age of modern warfare.
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