A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War

by Williamson Murray, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Wayne Wei Hsieh

Book Overview

How the Civil War changed the face of war

The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691169403
• ISBN13: 9780691169408
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"