How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

ISBN-13: 9780307346001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 337 str.

Bevin Alexander

Opis

Destroying conventional historical wisdom, acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals how the South most definitely could have defeated the North-and how close a Confederate victory came to happening. Alexander shows:
How the Confederacy had its greatest chance to win the war just three months into the fighting-but blew it
How the Confederacy s three most important leaders- President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson clashed over how to fight the war
How the Confederate army devised but never fully exploited a way to negate the Union s huge advantages in manpower and weaponry
How Abraham Lincoln and other Northern leaders understood the Union s vulnerability better than the Confederacy s leaders did
"How the South Could Have Won the Civil War" provides a startling account of how a relatively small number of tactical and strategic mistakes cost the South the war and changed the course of history."