Destructive War: William Techumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans - Hardcover

Royster, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394524853 ISBN 13: 9780394524856

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1991

Synopsis

Explores the growing destructiveness of the Civil War, focusing on the careers of Stonewall Jackson and William Tecumseh Sherman

About this title

Review:

"Royster's intriguing analyses fill every page with new information and offer a fresh interpretation of our bloodiest conflict...exhaustively researched, artistically written, brilliantly argued."

-- Boston Globe

"Parts of The Destructive War are as good as anything written...during the last generation...a masterful narrative."

-- Washington Post Book World

"A fascinating history of the ideas held by the people who fought the war...fresh, intriguing, philosophical." -- Detroit Free Press

"An illuminating interpretation." -- Wall Street Journal

Winner of the Lincoln Prize

About the Author:

Charles Royster is a historian, a teacher, and an author. He served as the Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University and is the recipient of the Bancoft, Parkman, and Lincoln Prizes. His works include Light-Horse Harry Lee, The Destructive War, and A Revolutionary People at War. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0394524853
• ISBN 13: 9780394524856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1