Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command - Hardcover

Freeman, Douglas Southall; Sears, Stephen W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684833093 ISBN 13: 9780684833095

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1998

Synopsis

Featuring a detailed, fold-out campaign map, fifty-four smaller maps, and photographs, a one-volume abridgement of a monument in the landscape of Civil War literature traces the course of the war as seen through the eyes of Lee's field officers.

About this title

Review:

Allan Nevins That Douglas Southall Freeman is our most eminent biographer and ablest military historian no one will dispute.

About the Author:

Douglas Southall Freeman was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1886, the son of a Confederate soldier. After receiving a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University at the age of twenty-two, he embarked on a newspaper career. He was named the editor of the Richmond News Leader at the age of twenty-nine, a post he would hold for thirty-four years. In 1915, Freeman was commissioned to write a one-volume biography of Robert E. Lee; twenty years later, his four-volume R. E. Lee won the Pulitzer Prize. The three volumes of Lee's Lieutenants took him a relatively modest eight years to complete. He won another Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume biography of George Washington, which he finished only hours before his death in 1953.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0684833093
• ISBN 13: 9780684833095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 910