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With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other : The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North /

When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardo...

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Autor principal: Reardon, Carol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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