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The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant

by J.F.C. Fuller · 1929

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An analysis of one of America's greatest soldiers which refutes the notion that Grant relied only on brute force to achieve his victories, demonstrating instead the mastery of mobility, surprise, judgement, and strategic co-ordination that made Grant the premier Civil War general.

Subject
historybiography
Genre
war and military
Themes
military historyAmerican history
Setting
civil warUSA
Audience
adult
Length
long · 472 pages

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