Descriere: The March to the Sea was the federal campaign through the heart of Georgia following its occupation of Atlanta, culminating in the capture of the Port of Savannah in December 1864. During the March to the Sea, Sherman's Union forces destroyed not only military targets but also cotton gins, railroads, telegraph lines, and civilian property while seizing cattle, food, and other supplies, causing tremendous disruption to the South's economy and damage to the will of Southerners to continue fighting.This examination of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea places the campaign in its broader military and political context and analyzes the often-neglected story of the Confederate response to the operation. It posits that Sherman's campaign was actually more of an act of humanitarianism than senseless destruction and contributes to the current debate over Sherman's role in the origins of "total war" in American military history. Finally, the book addresses the long-standing myths associated with Sherman and his march, stemming partially from portrayal of the general and his command in the 1939 film Gone With the Wind.
Autori: Alan C. Downs (Author) | Editura: PRAEGER FREDERICK A | Anul aparitiei: 2015 | ISBN: 9780313399435 | Categorie: History
Nancy L. Bunge
Woman in the Wilderness: Letters of Harriet Wood Wheeler, Missionary Wife, 18321892
Woman in the Wilderness is a collection of letters written between 1832 and 1892 to and by an American woman, Harriet Wood Wheeler. Harriet's letters reveal her experiences with actors and institutions that played pivotal roles in the history of American women: the nascent literate female work force at the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts; the Ipswich Female Seminary, which was one of the first schools for women teachers; women's associations, especially in churches; and the close and enduring ties that characterized women's relationships in the late nineteenth century. Harriet's letters also provide an intimate view of the relationships between American Indians and Euro-Americans in the Great Lakes region, where she settled with her Christian missionary husband.
Joshua Levine (Author)
SAS: An Illustrated History of the SAS During the Second World War
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Carmen Bin Ladin
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women. On September 11th, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her ex-brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart went out to America. She also knew that her life and the lives of her family would never be the same again. Carmen bin Ladin, half Swiss and half Persian, married into and later divorced from the bin Laden family and found herself inside a complex and vast clan, part of a society that she neither knew nor understood. Her story takes us inside the bin Laden family and one of the most powerful, secretive, and repressed kingdoms in the world.