For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War - Couverture souple

McPherson, James M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195124995 ISBN 13 : 9780195124996

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1998

Synopsis

James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called `history writing of the highest order.' Now, McPherson has brilliantly recreated the war and battle experience of that war from the point of view of the soldiers themselves, drawing on at least 25,000 letters written by over 1000 soldiers, both Union and Confederate. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, these men remained highly motivated and idealistic about the cause for which they fought, regardless of the obstacles and deprivation that they faced.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History at Princeton University where he has taught since 1962. The author of eleven books on the Civil War era of American History, he won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195124995
• ISBN 13: 9780195124996
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 237
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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