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America's Civil War: The Operational Battlefield, 1861-1863

2 reviews
Brian Holden Reid

Prometheus Books, 2008

Not for everyone!
When I bought this book, the sales clerk observed that this looked like a very technical book. She is correct; this is a book for students of the Civil War and military thought. It is not a general history of the war concentrating on what happened when. It is a book that concentrates on how things happened and why commanders let them happen. This is a book about operational planning or the ...

Science of War

Taylor & Francis, 2007

Forty years of confrontation in Europe produced a complex set of conditioned reflexes in western military thinking. With the end of the Warsaw pact, planning and analysis specialists have been compelled to look again at basic principles. The analysis of threat and response has been transformed, and patterns of likely action such as the Gulf intervention have been accommodated. In practical terms, these developments affect what is taught to both ...

British General Staff

Taylor & Francis, 2007

Based on extensive and systematic archival research, this work offers an analysis of the British General Staff in the period up to the eve of World War II. The editors and contributors have explored three broad themes. The first is the inception of the General Staff between the 1890s and 1914. The second is the role of personalities in extending the power and the authority of the General Staff over the Army as a whole. And the third is the ...

The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (Smithsonian History of Warfare)

1 review
Brian Holden Reid

Collins, 2006

The Civil War and the evolution of modern warfare
Brian Holden Reid's goal in this book, as he states in the introduction, is to place the Civil War in context with two other major conflicts of the mid-19th century, the Crimean War and the wars of German unification. Contrary to many traditional accounts of the warfare of the era, he sees the three as reflecting the evolution of large-scale industrialized warfare during those decades, with the ...

The American Civil War and the Wars of the Industrial Revolution (The History of Warfare)

2 reviews
Brian Holden Reid, John Keegan

Cassell, 1999

Actually a work about Modern Industrial Wars
Though the American Civil War is given top billing and forms the bulk of the book, it is one of three conflicts. First is discussed the Crimean War, which shows how little military science had advanced from the end of the Napoleonic era to 1854. The American Civil war is discussed in an admirable and brief fashion - important political concerns, emancipation proclomation, election of 1864, ...

The American Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century
Brian Holden Reid, Brian Reid

Cassell, 2002

The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in America's history, comprising 149 general engagements of importance and 2200 skirmishes. Trace the course of this seminal confrontation, including such factors as generalship, staff work, organization, intelligence, and logistics, to see how they affected the shape and decisions of the battlefield. Look closely at the strengths and weakness of the opposing sides--the North's industrial power and the ...

The Origins of the American Civil War (Origins of Modern Wars)
Brian Holden Reid

Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1996

Studies in British Military Thought: Debates With Fuller and Liddell Hart
Brian Holden Reid

University of Nebraska Press, 1998

John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878?1966), British soldier, military analyst, and war historian, is considered the father of modern armored (tank) warfare?first as planner of the attack at Cambrai in November 1917, and then as author of a number of works that challenged traditional British military thought. His ideas were resisted in his own country but had a major impact on German and Soviet military doctrine. Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895?1970) ...

Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation

4 reviews
Brian Holden Reid

Prometheus Books, 2007

A New Study of Robert E. Lee
It is easy to overlook the many contributions that non-Americans have made to the study of the American Civil War. Brian Holden Reid's outstanding study "Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation" brings an informed, fresh and balanced perspective to bear upon the Confederacy's greatest general. Reid is Professor of American History and Military Institutions and Head of the Department of War Studies at ...

The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century
Brian Holden Reid

Harpercollins, 2006

The American Civil War: Explorations and Reconsiderations

Longman Publishing Group, 2000

B> With Brian Reid and Susan-Mary Grant from England, this book offers a non-US examination of the Civil War and brings together key writings on the most critical episodes of American history. This outsiders view eschews an overly reverential approach and combines multiple perspectives with the book arranged around four main themes: the political front, the military front, the home front and the ideological front. . Examines key ...

A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War.(Book Review): An article from: The ...
Brian Holden Reid

Thomson Gale, 2004

This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 460 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to ...

American Studies

Palgrave Macmillan, 1991

This book consists of sixteen pieces, by British scholars, on aspects of the American (and Anglo-American) experience.

Churchill's Generals

4 reviews
John (Editor) ; Bond, Brian ; Danchev, Alex ; Beckett, Ian ; Fraser, David ; Reid, Brian Holden ; Warner, Philip ; Carver, Michael ; Dewar, Michael ; Pitt, Barrie ; Craster, Michael ; Shepperd, Alan ; Macksey, Kenneth ; Simpson, Keith ; Gordon, J Keegan

Warner Futura, 1992

The British War
This book is an interesting and exceptionally well-done introduction to the British perspective of World War II. Each of the seventeen chapter is a biography of a key British general during this conflict. Some are well-known (Montgomery), while others have largely been forgotten (Sir Henry Wilson). Five generals end up having to share two chapters. Each and every one, though, gets a good ...

Der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg und die europäischen Einigungskriege
Brian Holden Reid

Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin, 2000

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