Memoirs (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

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Author: William Tecumseh Sherman

ISBN-10: 0760773688

ISBN-13: 9780760773680

Category: Historical Biography - United States

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General William Tecumseh Sherman stands out as a master of maneuver warfare. In a bloody Civil War chiefly remembered for battles in which each side tried too often to simply pummel the other into submission by sheer weight of numbers and volume of fire, Sherman tried to keep casualties low, both among his own troops and, perhaps equally significant, among those of his Confederate enemy. Sherman, known for his quote, "War is hell," explains in this account of his life how a man of compassion came to embrace a brutal and inhumane approach to war, one that has been the mark of every major conflict since his time.