Halleck (eBook)

Lincoln's Chief of Staff

Stephen E. Ambrose (Autor)

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1996
248 Seiten
LSU Press (Verlag)
978-0-8071-5540-0 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing."e; Lincoln's secretary of the navy Gideon Welles's harsh words embody the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox. In Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, originally published in 1962, Stephen Ambrose challenges the standard interpretation of this controversial figure. Ambrose argues persuasively that Halleck has been greatly underrated as a war theorist because of past writers' failure to do justice to his close involvement with movements basic to the development of the American military establishment. He concedes that "e;by all the touchstones used to judge great captains of the past, Halleck was a failure,"e; but maintains he was nonetheless "e;the 'Old Brains' of the Union Army in the time of the testing of the nation."e;

Autor

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002) was the author of many biographies and histories, including Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest; The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany; Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West; Upton and the Army; and a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon. It was after reading Halleck, Ambrose’s first book, that Dwight Eisenhower asked Ambrose to write his biography.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.1996
• Zusatzinfo: None
• Verlagsort: Baton Rouge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-8071-5540-3 / 0807155403
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-5540-0 / 9780807155400