Bloody Roads South

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A detailed account of 40 days of battle during the American Civil War from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania, from North Anna to Cold Harbor It draws upon diaries, letters, reminiscences, memoirs and regimental histories, and covers the experiences of soldiers, civilians and politicians. New Download Bloody Roads South By Noah Andre Trudeau For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Pretty good Could usemapsNoah Andre Trudeau s Southern Storm is a masterpiece about Sherman s March to the Sea Two decades before Southern Storm , Trudeau wrote Bloody Roads South about the Overland Campaign and he s come a long way as an author in those two decades I also think Trudeau s Gettysburg A Testing of Courage is a better book than this Don t get me wrong this book is by no means terrible It is an adequate single volume history of the Overland Campaign It s handicapped by being written a decade befo Noah Andre Trudeau s Southern Storm is a masterpiece about Sherman s March to the Sea Two decades before Southern Storm , Trudeau wrote Bloody Roads South about the Overland Campaign and he s come a long way as an author in those two decades I also think Trudeau s Gettysburg A Testing of Courage is a better book than this Don t get me wrong this book is by no means terrible It is an adequate single volume history of the Overland Campaign It s handicapped by being written a decade before the first of Gordon C Rhea s O...Another masterpiece by a great Civil War writer Slowly getting through his works, and this one was fascinating I appreciated how Grant just kept moving on, though he was clearly personally effected by the alarming rate of casualties The numbers were on his side, and with complete confidence from Lincoln he just moved on.Trudeau always shows how Lee was the greatest general of his generation When the Union army slips south while the Confederates are waiting and start he siege of Petersburg, L Another masterpiece by a great Civil War writer Slowly getting through his works, and this one was fascinating I appreciated how Grant just kept moving on, though he was clearly personally effected by the alarming rate of casualties The n...The history of the bloodiest campaign of the Civil War Ulysses S Grant s 1864 Overland Campaign against Robert E Lee s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, told mostly through the words of those who experienced it A popular history, the notes citations are slim, but its day by day, sometimes hour by hour narrative makes it feel like you re traveling with the two armies while reading it I used this b...The first of Trudeau s four volumes of the final campaign in Virginia in 1864 5 These are the most contested and bloodiest of the battles between Grant and Lee Shows the tenacity of Grant and the defensive skills of Lee Also shows the hazards of the o...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Grant moves east to take command He loses the battle of the wilderness but keeps on going against an increasingly exhausted south Ultimately he shows that in a meat grinder series of battles that the south may win individual battles but the North can sustain causaltie...A good one volume history of the campaign It doesn t go into any detailed tactical analysis of the battles Gordon C Rhea s books do a good job of that Mr Trudeau probably depended too heavily on quotations to tell the story The maps in this book are really bad Only four maps, al...Like The Last Citadel, Trudeau brings these battles to life through first person accounts of the men who were there A little short on strategy and tactics, but that is not the author s style.Mister Trudeau is one of my favorite Civil War authors This book is a great little history of the ascendance of Grant into control in the East I always love the way he intermixes the story of the individual soldiers that compromised this great army.Good overall campaign level summary of the Spring 1864 battles in the Eastern theater Liked how Trudeau switched back and forth, day to day, sometimes even hour to hour, between Grant and Lee Gave a sense of the chess match that rapidly evolved between the two.

Bloody Roads South
  • English
  • 12 March 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 368 pages
  • 0316853267
  • Noah Andre Trudeau
  • Bloody Roads South