Lee Moves North - Robert E.lee on the Offensive

Informationen zum Autor Michael A. Palmer is an associate professor of history at East Carolina University. He is the author of several military and maritime histories! including Stoddert's War! winner of the prestigious Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. Mr. Palmer lives in Greenville! North Carolina. Klappentext This revisionist view from a prizewinning historian demonstrates that while Robert E. Lee may have displayed tactical brilliance in the defensive mode! when he took his troops on the offensive all of his campaigns met with disaster. Lee Moves North reexamines three unsuccessful campaigns: Sharpsburg/Antietam! Gettysburg! and Bristoe Station. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Maryland Campaign. The Gettysburg Campaign. The Bristoe Station Campaign. Conclusions. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Michael A. Palmer
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.1999
• EAN: 9780471350590
• ISBN: 978-0-471-35059-0
• No. of pages: 190
• Subject: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships