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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 15, 2001
In this anthology of 35 essays, 21 distinguished scholars examine the Civil War from various perspectives critical to the conflict's evolution and outcome; the international, national, and regional strategies of the contestants; and the defining battlefield tactics that shaped the war. The essayists seemingly adopt editor Cowley's approach in an earlier work (What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, Putnam, 1999) by directly and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More