A. Wilson Greene The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion 9781572339361

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Автор: A. Wilson Greene
Название: The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion
ISBN: 9781572339361
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

Гражданская война в Америке

ISBN-10: 1572339365
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 592
Вес: 0.79 кг.
Дата издания: 30.10.2012
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 28
Размер: 224 x 150 x 38
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: American Civil War
Подзаголовок: Breaking the backbone of the rebellion
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The Petersburg Campaign was what finally did it. After months of relentless conflict throughout 1864, the Confederate army led by General Robert E. Lee holed up in the Virginia city of Petersburg as Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grants vastly superior forces lurked nearby. The brutal fighting that took place around the city during 1864 and into 1865 decimated both armies as Grant used his manpower advantage to repeatedly smash the Confederate lines, a tactic that eventually resulted in the decisive breakthrough that ultimately doomed the Confederacy. The breakthrough and the events that led up to it are the subject of A. Wilson Greenes ground breaking book The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign, a significant revision of a much-praised work first published in 2000.<br><br> Surprisingly, despite Petersburgs decisive importance to the wars outcome, the campaign has received scant attention from historians. Greenes book, with its incisive analysis and compelling narrative, changes this, offering readers a rich account of the personalities and strategies that shaped the final phase of the fighting. <br><br> Greenes ultimate focus on the climatic engagements of April 2, 1865, the day that Confederate control of Richmond and Petersburg was effectively ended. The book tells this story from the perspectives of the two army groups that clashed on that day: the Union Sixth Corps and the Confederate Third Corps. But Greene does more than just recount the military tactics at Petersburg; he also connects the reader intimately with how the war affected society and spotlights the soldiers, both officers and enlisted men, whose experiences defined the outcome. Thanks to his extensive research and consultation of rare source materials, Greene gives readers a vibrant perspective on the campaign that broke the Confederate spirit once and for all.

The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion, A. Wilson Greene