The Petersburg Campaign
This title covers the series of battles leading up to the inevitable siege of Petersburg, including Drewry s Bluff, Globe Tavern and Fort Harrison, and the siege itself, with its incessant trench warfare and and fighting along the James River. Best Download [ The Petersburg Campaign ] Author [ John Horn ] – kino-fada.fr For a century and a half, The Petersburg Campaign has been vastly neglected by the historians of the war Why the most decisive Union victory of the war surpassing even Gettysburg in importance has been so understudied, even to this day The reason lay maybe in the aspect itself of the campaign, with an hybrid form of warfare halfway through the traditional pitched battles, and the static trench warfare of the next century So John Horn s brief book is especially valuable for being one of the For a century and a half, The Petersburg Campaign has been vastly neglected by the historians of the war Why the most decisive Union victory of the war surpassing even Gettysburg in importance has been so understudied, even to this day The reason lay maybe in the aspect itself of the campaign, with an hybrid form of warfare halfway through the traditional pitched battles, and the static trench warfare of the next century So John Horn s brief book is especially valuable for being one of the few complete overview of the c...Great introduction to the campaign Horn is a solid writer.read 2007Weakest book on this battle that I ve read.
- English
- 20 January 2018 John Horn
- Paperback
- 288 pages
- 1580970249
- John Horn
- The Petersburg Campaign