![]() ![]() ![]() BH Liddell Hart was a professional soldier and also an extraordinary writer. In this case, I have no doubt: I loved both. Very often I am plagued by the question of whether I have enjoyed a work of biography because I liked the subject or because the quality of the writing was excellent leading me to like the subject. ![]() This book is not for everyone, but with the domestic events of the past few years being what they were I became curious enough to want to learn how the heck did we get to this? Since General Sherman was a major figure in this war, it only made sense to find out more about him. ![]() Secondly, the level of detail in this extraordinary biography is what makes history come alive for me. The Civil War is perhaps the darkest moment in American history and although I like to read about how it affected the daily lives of all Americans and learn what they were thinking and doing, I want isolated components of the war to be presented without any filter. And, try as they might, that bias leaks through. I've found that nearly all American historians who write about the American Civil War have some degree of bias, whether it be for or against the North or the South. First, the author was a British historian. There were two important features of this book that really stood out for me. This book was released in 1929 and I'm fortunate enough to have found a really good original edition. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895-1970) was an English soldier, military historian and leading inter-war theorist. ![]()
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