A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
Williamson Murray · Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
Sep 2017 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Mike Chamberlain
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. In a masterful narrative that propels listeners from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox, Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh bring every aspect of the battlefield vividly to life. They show how this new way of waging war was made possible by the powerful historical forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, yet how the war was far from being simply a story of the triumph of superior machines. Murray and Hsieh paint indelible portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and other major figures whose leadership, judgment, and personal character played such decisive roles in the fate of a nation. They also examine how the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Northern Virginia, and the other major armies developed entirely different cultures that influenced the war's outcome.
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Michael Adriano
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October 5, 2022
This is the best book on the civil war. It is difficult to keep track of who's who with so many names and places. But this is a true masterpiece of history.
Bryan Decker (Bmdecker93)
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July 5, 2020
Outstanding military history of the U.S. Civil War. Highly recommend for students of the subject. Narrator did a superb job.
About the author
Williamson Murray is professor emeritus of history at Ohio State University. His many books include The Iran-Iraq War.
Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh is associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of West Pointers and the Civil War.
Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer, as well as an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. Along with animation and video game characters, Mike performs narration and voices promos for television. He lives with his wife and daughter in Southern California.
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