Sherman: Lessons in Leadership: Lessons in Leadership

by Steven E. Woodworth

2020-11-24 14:37:30

Sherman was not only one of the most important generals in the American Civil War, but also one of the most famous commanders in the military annals of the western world. He has become an almost mythical character in popular memory, the embodiment of... Read more

Sherman was not only one of the most important generals in the American Civil War, but also one of the most famous commanders in the military annals of the western world. He has become an almost mythical character in popular memory, the embodiment of grim-visaged, implacable war. Legend has him burning a sixty-mile-wide swath of desolation across the South, and southerners still confidently assert that their ancestors were burned out by Sherman and his vandal hordes. Sherman famously said, "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it," and yet, even at his most destructive, he maintained strict limits on the degree of damage his soldiers could inflict. Sherman's wartime career makes a fascinating study of the degree to which the severity of war can be channeled, directed, and limited. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.51 in
Print pages224
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
Publication date January 5, 2010
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780230620629

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