Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness.
The Civil War was the bloodiest in America's history, comprising 149 engagements of importance and 2200 skirmishes. The author narrates the history of the war and also describes how such factors as generalship, staff work, organization, intelligence and logistics affect the shape and decisions of the battlefield. He looks at the strengths, and weaknesses of the opposing sides - the North's industrial strength and the South's material shortages, for example - and the effect of new weapons on tactics. He explores the crucial role of the industrial revolution on the course of 19th-century warfare, first in the Crimean War, then in Prussia's wars with Austria and France, and most dramatically in the American Civil War.
Chapter 1: North and South Divide
Chapter 2: Will There Be a War?
Chapter 5: The Military Geography of the Civil War
Chapter 6: The Life of the Soldier
Chapter 8: McClellan Takes Command
Chapter 9: The War in Middle America
Chapter 10: Lee’s War in the East, Grant’s War in the West
Chapter 11: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
Chapter 13: Cutting the Chattanooga—Atlanta Link
Chapter 14: The Overland Campaign and the Fall of Richmond
Chapter 15: Breaking into the South
Chapter 16: The Battle off Cherbourg and the Civil War at Sea
Chapter 19: Walt Whitman and Wounds
Chapter 20: Civil War Generalship
Chapter 22: Could the South Have Survived?
Chapter 23: The End of the War
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