商品簡介
Simpson (history, Arizona State U.-Tempe) steps back from the multitude of detailed studies about particular campaigns, battles, and people to analyze the overall strategy of the two sides in the Eastern Theater. Recent historians tend to agree that the Union won the war in the West, while the East remained in stalemate throughout, but contemporaries consistently measured victory and defeat by events in the East. He looks at the theater, presidents and generals, audacity and anxiety, blood along the Rappahannock, the stalemate continues at Gettysburg, Grant takes command, and to Appomattox. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Brooks D. Simpson is ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, and the author of six books on the Civil War, including Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War & Reconstruction, 1861-1868; America's Civil War, and The Political Education of Henry Adams.