War Comes Again - Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II

Informationen zum Autor Gabor S. Boritt is Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and is Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. His books include Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream, Why the Confederacy Lost, and Lincoln's Generals. Klappentext The Civil War and World War II stand as the two great cataclysms of American history. Now, In War Comes Again, eleven eminent historians - all veterans of the Second World War - offer an illuminating comparison of these two epic events in our national life. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to make a direct comparison of America's participation in its two most significant wars - the Civil War and World War II. A group of prominent historians have provided an illuminating comparison of the two wars in a number of central areas.

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• Authors: G. S. Boritt, G.s. Boritt
• Assisted by: G. S. Boritt (Editor), Gabor Boritt (Editor), Gabor S. Boritt (Editor), Gabor S. (Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies Boritt (Editor), David Eisenhower (Foreword), Eisenhower David (Foreword)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.1995
• EAN: 9780195088458
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508845-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books; Gettysburg Lectures; Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books; Gettysburg Civil War Institute
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Europe, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, Defence strategy, planning & research, General & world history, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), General and world history, History of the Americas, Military and defence strategy, Modern warfare, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater