Amerikanischer Bürgerkrieg 09

Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

Autor: Ted Widmer

Jack Hinson's One-Man War

Autor: Tom C. McKenney

Longstreet: A General's Journey Through War and Reconciliation

Autor: Olivier Scoffield

Robert E. Lee on Leadership: Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision

Autor: H. W. Crocker III

Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and His East Tennessee Cavalry

Autor: Charles Larry Gordon

Robert M. Solow BIOGRAPHY: The Quiet Revolutionary: Robert Solow and the Transformation of Modern Economics

Autor: Larry L. Knapp

Joseph E, Johnston: A Civil War Biography (Norton Paperback)

Autor: Craig L. Symonds

Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship

J. F. C. Fuller

Grant and Sherman: Civil War Memoirs: A Library of America Boxed Set

Ulysses S. Grant

The Cavaliers of the Confederacy: The Lives and Careers of JEB Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest

Charles River Editors

Stonewall Jackson

James I. Robertson

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood, to his heroics in battle, to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically rescued him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man told with great courage as he reflects on the fortunes that shaped his life and his character. Written under excruciating circumstances-Grant was dying of throat cancer-and encouraged and edited from its very inception by Mark Twain, it is a triumph of the art of autobiography.

Grant was sick and broke when he began work on his memoirs. Driven by financial worries and a desire to provide for his wife, he wrote diligently during a year of deteriorating health. He vowed he would finish the work before he died, and one week after its completion, he lay dead at the age of 63.

Publication of the memoirs came at a time when the public was being treated to a spate of wartime reminiscences, many of them defensive in nature, seeking to refight battles or attack old enemies. Grant's penetrating and stately work reveals a nobility of spirit and an innate grasp of the important fact, which he rarely displayed in private life. He writes in his preface that he took up the task "with a sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to anyone, whether on the National or the Confederate side. "

General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior (Vintage Civil War Library)

James I. Robertson Jr.

Commander of All Lincoln?s Armies - A Life of General Henry W. Halleck

John F. Marszalek

Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 (Military Classics)

Brooks Simpson

REBEL YELL & THE YANKEE HURRAHPB

John W. Haley

Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Under the Old Flag (V. I & II, Abridged, Annotated) (English Edition)

Autor: James Harrison Wilson

General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee (English Edition)

Autor: Fitzhugh Lee