This continues my Civil War reading but at a different level from my recent detailed descriptions of specific battles. This was written in 1929 but reads as if were written in the last decade. J. F. C. Fuller is a well known military historian and I am now interested in reading some of his other books starting with The Generalship of Alexander the Great. This book was about 50% description and 50% analysis. Fuller considers Grant the only general of the Civil War who applied an overall strategy that encompassed all of the theaters of war. For this reason Fuller rates him as the premier general of the war. Lee fought battles, Grant fought the war. His coordination of the campaign in Virginia and Sherman's campaign in the Deep South led to the final victory of the Union.
The book was a very good read and I would recommend it to students of the Civil War and general military history. ( )

Early 20th century bio from one of England's foremost military theorists and one of the first truly favorable bios of Grant. Excellent use of maps, examples, and stats and one of the most objective ever written. ( )