In the Trenches at Petersburg - Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat

Informationen zum Autor Earl J. Hess is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in history at Lincoln Memorial University. He is author of many books on the Civil War, including, most recently, The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi . Klappentext In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War. Hess covers all aspects of the Petersburg campaign, from important engagements that punctuated the long months of siege to mining and countermining operations, the fashioning of wire entanglements and the laying of torpedo fields to impede attacks, and the construction of underground shelters to protect the men manning the works. In the Trenches at Petersburg humanizes the experience of the soldiers working in the fortifications and reveals the human cost of trench warfare in the waning days of the struggle. Zusammenfassung In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat

Product details

• Authors: Earl J Hess, Earl J. Hess
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9781469609959
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-0995-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Civil War America (Paperback); Civil War America (Paperback); Civil War America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration