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(2.95) | Keine | "The crowning achievement of one of America's most distinguished military historians." --Lincoln Prize jury "Readers will find much to debate in this book--including... its affirmation that, because of emancipation, 'the Civil War calls for a rethinking of the attitude... that war is always futile, that its rewards never match its cost, that any conflict [must be] immediately decisive and virtually without loss of American lives.'" --Gary W. Gallagher… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. To the members of my paternal and maternal families, the Weigleys and the Rohrbachs, who were touched by the war. | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Introduction / To the Gettysburg Address: Every year byt one through my boyhood and early adolescence -- World War II gasoline rationing once go tin the way -- my parents and I traveled to the battlefield of Gettysburg from our home ninety miles away in Reading. | |
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This book definitely has its oddities -- as when the author insists on identifying generals as being generals U.S.A. or U.S.V., i.e. as generals in the regular army or the "volunteer" army that would disband when the Civil War was over. There is some logic to making this point -- but Weigley never really explains how the whole U.S.A./U.S.V. system worked. (And it's worth understanding, since it explains, e.g., how George Custer could be a Civil War general but, a decade later, would die as an army colonel).
One of the other quirks is made explicit in the title: this is a military and political history. A great deal of time is devoted to the home-front shenanigans of the various parties and politicians. This would be a very good idea -- but, somehow, it doesn't come off very well. Knowing that there were a lot of governors who opposed Lincoln is important, but we never get a real feeling for why. The book doesn't explain enough about pre-war politics to really let us understand how they evolved during the war. As a result, the political sections tend to weigh the book down -- and, of course, they don't leave as much room for the military history, which generally moves much more quickly.
I don't mean to be entirely critical. There is good material here that doesn't show up in some of the more "standard" histories such as those by Catton and McPherson. But the flip side is, if you're reading a one-volume history, odds are that you don't want all the details. You want a good, easy-to-read, accurate, interesting history. By that standard, this volume falls rather short. ( )