Had Lee enjoyed the manpower or materiel advantages of Grant, would the South have triumphed? Had Hood possessed strength superior to Sherman's, would he still have lost their encounters in Georgia? Popular sentiment has long bowed to the military leadership of the Civil War's victorious generals—a view that has been disputed by modern scholarship. Many might be startled to learn that a British army officer also called these opinions into question long ago. Out of print for more than fifty years, Lee, Grant and Sherman is an unrecognized classic of Civil War history that presaged current scholarship by decades. Alfred H. Burne assesses the military leadership of Grant, Lee, Sherman, Hood, Johnston, Early, and Sheridan from mid-1864 to Appomattox, contradicting prevailing perceptions of the generals and even proposing that Grant's military capabilities were inferior to Lee's. Burne sought to challenge the orthodox views of other historians—J. F. C. Fuller on Grant and Basil Liddell Hart on Sherman—but his assessments were so unorthodox that even with the endorsement of preeminent Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman, his book received scant attention in its day. He sees Sherman as more concerned with the geographical objective of capturing Atlanta than the military goal of smashing the Confederate army, lacking Grant's understanding that the principal object of war is to conquer and destroy the enemy's armed forces. Yet he asserts that "Grant in his heart of hearts feared Lee" and also suggests that Jubal Early's Valley campaign might have been the most brilliant of the whole war. In his analysis of the Georgia campaign, Burne views Sherman as a general who avoided risk and was too obsessed with raiding to wage an all-out offensive battle. Refusing to dismiss Hood as incompetent, as many historians have done, Burne points to his brilliance in military planning and claims that most of his defeats were merely the result of inadequate resources. Burne's book was ahead of its time, anticipating later shifts in historical evaluations of Civil War leadership. Now available in a corrected edition, with Freeman's original introduction and a new foreword and endnotes by Albert Castel, it is a rich source of insight for scholars—and for anyone willing to reconsider traditional views of these generals.

Lee, Grant and Sherman: A Study in Leadership in the 1864-65 Campaign

History

Burne, Alfred H.

Castel, Albert E.

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University Press of Kansas

Lee, Grant And Sherman: A Study In Leadership In The 1864-65 Campaign

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The Agincourt War: A Military History of the Latter Part of the Hundred Years War from 1369 to 1453

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Praeger

The Hundred Years' War was, in effect, four wars. This volume presents a military history of the war from 1337 to the Peace of Bretigny in 1360. The companion volume, The Agincourt War covers the later part of the War to 1453.

The Crecy War: A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1337 to the Peace of Bretigny, 1360

This book comprises the Lees Knowles Lectures for 1946, originally delivered by A. H. Burne at the University of Cambridge. Burne begins by introducing the principles of military strategy, and then applies those principles to examples of land operations in Poland, Dunkirk and Russia, Africa and Italy, and Japan and north-west Europe during the Second World War.

Strategy as Exemplified in the Second World War: A Strategical Examination of the Land Operations: The Lees Knowles Lectures for 1946

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Cambridge University Press

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Kessinger Publishing

This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.

Lee, Grant and Sherman: A Study in Leadership in the 1864-1865 Campaign

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Lee, Grant and Sherman: A Study in Leadership in the 1864-65 Campaign

Lee, Grant and Sherman: A Study in Leadership in the 1864-65 Campaign

The Agincourt War: A Military History of the Latter Part of the Hundred Years War from 1369 to 1453

The Crecy War: A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1337 to the Peace of Bretigny, 1360

Strategy as Exemplified in the Second World War: A Strategical Examination of the Land Operations: The Lees Knowles Lectures for 1946

Lee, Grant And Sherman: A Study In Leadership In The 1864-65 Campaign

Lee, Grant And Sherman: A Study In Leadership In The 1864-65 Campaign

Lee, Grant and Sherman: A Study in Leadership in the 1864-1865 Campaign

Lee, Grant And Sherman: A Study In Leadership In The 1864-65 Campaign

The Crecy War: A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1337 to the Peace of Bretigny, 1360 (Wordsworth Military Library)