A01=Archer Jones
A01=HERMAN HATTAWAY
Author_Archer Jones
Author_HERMAN HATTAWAY
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Product details
- ISBN 9780252062100
- Weight: 966g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1991
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the introduction:
“To those unacquainted with military history, [this book] provides an elementary, instructive, and readable military account of the American Civil War. The basic concepts of war, its conduct, management, and support, are thoroughly explained and explicitly applied throughout in order to make clear what many authors often incorrectly take for granted that readers already know. . . .
We have tried to tell the military history of the war from the viewpoint of the higher commanders on both sides. We therefore emphasize strategy and logistics rather than tactics. . . .Strategy, management, and execution weigh more than superior numbers and resources in dictating the outcomes of wars, and the Civil War is no exception. The weaker side can win; the South almost did.”
“To those unacquainted with military history, [this book] provides an elementary, instructive, and readable military account of the American Civil War. The basic concepts of war, its conduct, management, and support, are thoroughly explained and explicitly applied throughout in order to make clear what many authors often incorrectly take for granted that readers already know. . . .
We have tried to tell the military history of the war from the viewpoint of the higher commanders on both sides. We therefore emphasize strategy and logistics rather than tactics. . . .Strategy, management, and execution weigh more than superior numbers and resources in dictating the outcomes of wars, and the Civil War is no exception. The weaker side can win; the South almost did.”
Herman Hattaway is a professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His books include Shades of Blue and Gray and Reflections of a Civil War Historian. Archer Jones is Professor Emeritus of History and a former dean at North Dakota State University. He is the author of Civil War Command Strategy: The Process of Victory and Defeat and The Art of War in the Western World.
