Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea - Brossura

Trudeau, Noah Andre

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060598689 ISBN 13: 9780060598686

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2009

Riassunto

A best-selling history of the Union general's epic march offers insight into the strategy behind his campaign and the reasons why he is still reviled below the Mason-Dixon Line, in an account told through the intimate diaries and letters of soldiers and civilians. 30,000 first printing. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Noah Andre Trudeau is the author of Gettysburg. He has won the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Award and the Jerry Coffey Memorial Prize. A former executive producer at National Public Radio, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Product Description:

Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive account that will stand as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic march a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate army but an entire society as well. Sherman's swath of destruction spanned more than sixty miles in width and virtually cut Georgia in two. He led more than 60,000 Union troops to blaze a path from Atlanta to Savannah, ordering his men to burn crops, kill livestock, and lay waste to everything that fed the Rebel war machine.Told through the intimate and engrossing writings of Sherman's soldiers and the civilians who suffered in their wake, Southern Storm paints a vibrant picture of an event that would forever change America's course. "

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0060598689
• ISBN 13: 9780060598686
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 671