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Cargando... Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American (1929)por B. H. Liddell Hart
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a workable biography of Sherman. I do not recommend it for any except the dedicated Civil War buff. Basil Liddell Hart, author, was a famous British strategist (the strategy of the indirect approach,) military historian and journalist in his day. His day has passed. Yes, it is better to approach a tactical, operational, or strategic problem indirectly, to avoid the costs of matching brute force to brute force. It is not so easily done. So yes, Sherman's tactical and operational methods did involve indirect approach in many cases. That is because he was a good general. LH faults Grant against Lee, but it is hard to see how Grant could have indirectly approached the Army of Northern Virginia. LH also has the annoying habit of most Briton's writing about the US (Paul Johnson excepted) of being suppercilious at a level just below the conscious. He is also racist, but he wrote in the 1930s, and was a product of his class and time. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
When Liddell Hart's Sherman was first published in 1929, it received encomiums such as these: "A masterly performance . . . one of the most thorougly dignified, one of the most distinguished biographies of the year."--Henry Steele Commager, New York Herald Tribune "It is not often that one comes upon a biography that is so well done as this book. Nearly every page bears evidence of the fact that it is the product of painstaking and exhaustive research, mature thought, and an expert understanding of the subject in hand . . ."--Saturday Review of Literature No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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