Description: Further DetailsTitle: HalleckCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackSubtitle: Lincoln's Chief of StaffEAN: 9780807120712ISBN: 9780807120712Publisher: Louisiana State University PressRelease Date: 04/30/1996Description: Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing. 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 ""by all the touchstones used to judge great captains of the past, Halleck was a failure,"" but maintains he was nonetheless ""the 'Old Brains' of the Union Army in the time of the testing of the nation.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Stephen E. Ambrose, Stephen E. Ambrose (Author)Genre: HistoryTopic: Military HistoryISBN-10: 0807120715Type: United StatesRelease Year: 1996 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Halleck
Title: Halleck
Subtitle: Lincoln's Chief of Staff
EAN: 9780807120712
ISBN: 9780807120712
Release Date: 04/30/1996
Release Year: 1996
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
ISBN-10: 0807120715
Type: United States
Book Title: Halleck : Lincoln's Chief of Staff
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: LSU Press
Topic: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: History
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
