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Taken at the Flood
Joseph L. Harsh
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Paperback. Complementing Confederate Tide Rising , which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy. Num Pages: 680 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 40. Weight in Grams: 934.
Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy. A fair appraisal of the campaign requires a full appraisal of the circumstances under which the two commanders, Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan, laboured. Harsh attempts to discover what they believed their responsibilities were and what they tried to accomplish; to evaluate the human and logistical resources at their disposal; and to determine what they knew and when ... Read more
Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy. A fair appraisal of the campaign requires a full appraisal of the circumstances under which the two commanders, Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan, laboured. Harsh attempts to discover what they believed their responsibilities were and what they tried to accomplish; to evaluate the human and logistical resources at their disposal; and to determine what they knew and when ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Kent State University Press United States
Number of pages
680
Condition
New
Number of Pages
680
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9781606351888
SKU
V9781606351888
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About Joseph L. Harsh
The late Joseph L. Harsh was professor and former chair of history at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 (The Kent State University Press, 1998).
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