Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command [One-Volume Abridgment of Three Volume Set] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Freeman, Douglas Southall; Sears, Stephen W.

Edité par Scribner, New York, 1998

A propos de cet article

As new condition silver gray boards, blue spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; List of Maps; Introduction by James M. McPhersn; Foreword by Douglas Southall Freeman; Editorial Note by Stephen W. Sears; Dramatis Personae; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with a preliminary section of full page black-and-white photographic portrait plates; black-and-white maps, and featuring the original large 17 inch by 17 inch bound-into-the-volume rear section pullout map of the battlegrounds of the Army of Northern Virginia. "That Douglas Southall Freeman is our most eminent biographer and ablest military historian no one will dispute." - Allan Nevins. "Stephen W. Sears, one of the foremost military historians of the Civil War, has performed a service of inestimable value (not to mention skillful, painstaking labor) in producing this abridgment of a classic in Civil War literature.It is a lean, muscular narrative. Freeman would surely have approved." - from the Introduction by James M. McPherson. "A towering landmark in Civil War literature, long considered one of the great masterpieces of military history - now available in a one-volume abridgment. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee. Dr. Freeman describes the early rise and fall of General Beauregard, the developing fricton between Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston, the emergence and failure of a number of military charlatans, and the triumphs of unlikely men at crucial times. He also describes the rise of the legendary "Stonewall" Jackson and traces his progress in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and into Richmond amid the acclaim of the South. The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who survived - among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell - developed as commanders and men. Lee's Lieutenants follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation. Accessible at last in a one-volume edition abridged by noted Civil War historian Stephen W. Sears, Lee's Lieutenants is essential reading for all Civil War buffs, students of war, and admirers of the historian's art as practiced at its very highest level." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

N° de réf. du vendeur 009301

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command [One-Volume Abridgment of Three Volume Set] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Éditeur: Scribner, New York
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Hobbing, Erich (book design); Klien, Howard (jacket design)
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: Fine