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A Savage War - A Military History of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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A Savage War - A Military History of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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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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