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Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff

Autor Stephen E. Ambrose
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 1996

"Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing." Lincoln's secretary of the navy Gideon Welles's harsh words embody the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox. In Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, originally published in 1962, Stephen Ambrose challenges the standard interpretation of this controversialfigure.

Ambrose argues persuasively that Halleck has been greatly underrated as a war theorist because of past writers' failure to do justice to his close involvement with movements basic to the development of the American military establishment. He concedes that "by all the touchstones used to judge great captains of the past, Halleck was a failure," but maintains he was nonetheless "the 'Old Brains' of the Union Army in the time of the testing of the nation."

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ISBN-13: 9780807120712
ISBN-10: 0807120715
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 141 x 217 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Lsu Press

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Ambrose's fine book is sound, thoughtful, and scholarly. It also demonstrates an understanding of the high command in modern war and helps to explain the divergent attitudes of Halleck's contemporaries.

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