Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant are without a doubt two of the most important, and heavily published about, figures in nineteenth-century American history. Their often controversial characters, lives and careers are intrinsically linked with the AMerican Civil War, and subsequent written histories on both individuals have frequently been shaped by the positions and roles both took up during that confilct. However, curiously, despite the enormous amount of published material on the Civil War, including ...
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Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant are without a doubt two of the most important, and heavily published about, figures in nineteenth-century American history. Their often controversial characters, lives and careers are intrinsically linked with the AMerican Civil War, and subsequent written histories on both individuals have frequently been shaped by the positions and roles both took up during that confilct. However, curiously, despite the enormous amount of published material on the Civil War, including individual biographies of Lee and Grant, there is almost nothing that has been published which looks at these two figures together and which compares them over an extended period of time. This new, fully illustrated book is the first to combine fascinating images and an extensive well-researched and written narrative text. Together with the accompanying toruing exhibition it provides a major re-assessment of the lives, careers, and historical impact of Lee anf Grant. It also charts the development of historical thought and popular attitudes towards both figures in the years since the outbreak of the Civil War. This heavily illustrated volume contains over 270 images - 175 of which are in colour - and brings together a huge number of pictorial representations of both Lee and Grant by a wide range of artists - many never published before - as well as photographs and engravings, and images from popular culture. The lenghty narrative text, written by leading authors William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, covers the entirety of both these major figures' lives, from their eary education and military training at West Point, through the Civil War and its immediate aftermath, to their retirement, and how they interconnected and how they diverged. It also features a wealth of new information about the Lee and Grant families, including parents, granparents, wives, children, and other family relations. AUTHORS: William M.S. Rasmussen and Robrt S. Tilton are both leading American historiaans and hve collaborated successfully together on previous publications. 175 colour & 100 mono illustrations
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New. First edition thus, 2007, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, 352pp., with illustrations. Book condition is New, it is still in shrink wrap and shows no obvious signs of wear.
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New. The first major re-assessment of the lives, careers and historical impact of these iconic figures. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations (some col. ), maps. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 301 x 242 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2086. 352 pages, illustrations. The first major reassessment of the lives, careers and historical impact of Lee and Grant by comparing them over an extended period of time, presenting information on their families and including hundreds of illustrations on their uniforms, letters, rare. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 301 x 242 x 38. Weight: 2086. 2007. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.