- Taschenbuch: 272 Seiten
- Verlag: Cumberland House Publishing,US (Januar 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 158182226X
- ISBN-13: 978-1581822267
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,8 x 15,2 x 2,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.430.866 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Strange Battles of the Civil War is an anecdotal look at engagements during the Civil War that have unique or unusual aspects. Arranged chronologically from the beginning of the conflict through its conclusion, these battles include victories against overwhelming odds, lost or misdirected orders that affected the outcomes of battles, action without orders that led to stunning results, battles with wholly unexpected political results, the "acoustic shadow" phenomenon that prevented commanders in the field from responding to nearby actions, unusual participants, unique or novel animals or equipment in battle, extremely low - and unbelievably high - casualties, and peculiar objectives. Relatively little attention is given to logistics. Instead, the focus is on the human-interest factors in these accounts.
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Embarrassingly Awful
1. August 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
The first essay I read in Garrison's book was on the Battle of Franklin, and I decided not to waste my time on the others.
In the very first sentence of the Franklin essay Garrison makes the first of numerous factual errors when he states that the Confederate commander John Bell Hood was a major general. Four months before the Battle of Franklin Hood was promoted from the rank of lieutenant general to the temporary rank of full general. Hood had not been a major general since Chickamauga, a full year earlier.
On the very first page of the essay Garrison states that after the Battle of Franklin Hood proceeded to Nashville with an army of only 19,000 men. In fact the troop strength of Hood's army was 31,500 when he marched on Nashville.
Still on the first page Garrison parrots the myth that Hood used laudanum...an outrageous assertion that has been universally discredited by virtually every Civil War scholar.
The factual errors in Garrison's short essay on Franklin are simply too numerous to detail here.
His outrageously ignorant analyses and commentary add to the pain in reading this headache-inducing essay.
A better title for this book would be Strange Books of the Civil War, or A Strange Decision by a Civil War Book Publisher.
In the very first sentence of the Franklin essay Garrison makes the first of numerous factual errors when he states that the Confederate commander John Bell Hood was a major general. Four months before the Battle of Franklin Hood was promoted from the rank of lieutenant general to the temporary rank of full general. Hood had not been a major general since Chickamauga, a full year earlier.
On the very first page of the essay Garrison states that after the Battle of Franklin Hood proceeded to Nashville with an army of only 19,000 men. In fact the troop strength of Hood's army was 31,500 when he marched on Nashville.
Still on the first page Garrison parrots the myth that Hood used laudanum...an outrageous assertion that has been universally discredited by virtually every Civil War scholar.
The factual errors in Garrison's short essay on Franklin are simply too numerous to detail here.
His outrageously ignorant analyses and commentary add to the pain in reading this headache-inducing essay.
A better title for this book would be Strange Books of the Civil War, or A Strange Decision by a Civil War Book Publisher.
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Not really a great read
13. März 2005
Format:Taschenbuch
I found this work to be a little disappointing. Each story seemed to develope slowly and was just not exiciting or interesting. Maybe to someone just beginning to read about this war, it might hold some interest, but not in my case.
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Boring and lackluster
22. Juni 2010
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
I saw this book in Barnes and Noble and almost bought it there. However I found a used version on Amazon for only 10 cents plus shipping. Thought this was an amazing price. However, even with this low price I would not recommend this book. I am not a civil war buff but the title drew me in. I thought I was going to read about some really strange occurrences that happened in the Civil War. I was left wanting though. All of the chapters detailed different battles in the war but I would hardly call any of them strange. The author has a much different opinion of what is "strange" than the normal person. Each battle he details did not play out like the Union and Confederate generals who had planned them had hoped but I would hardly call that strange. Many battles do not play out exactly liked planned. Even in today's wars, hardly anything goes as planned. Because when bullets start flying, anything can happen.
As one of the other reviews mentioned, there are many historical inaccuracies mentioned in this book. I can not attest to all of them being true but I did look a couple up and what the author writes was incorrect when compared to very reputable sources and scholars. What I found more disappointing though was the amount of grammatical errors. I do not find myself a picky person but there were some errors that should have been corrected by the author or publisher before this went to print. Honestly, many of them would have been picked up if they had simply used a spell check that comes with almost all word processing software.
So I do not recommend this book even with its low Amazon price. I tried to give it a chance and forced myself through half the book before I could not read anymore due to boredom and lack of interest.
As one of the other reviews mentioned, there are many historical inaccuracies mentioned in this book. I can not attest to all of them being true but I did look a couple up and what the author writes was incorrect when compared to very reputable sources and scholars. What I found more disappointing though was the amount of grammatical errors. I do not find myself a picky person but there were some errors that should have been corrected by the author or publisher before this went to print. Honestly, many of them would have been picked up if they had simply used a spell check that comes with almost all word processing software.
So I do not recommend this book even with its low Amazon price. I tried to give it a chance and forced myself through half the book before I could not read anymore due to boredom and lack of interest.
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