A follow-up volume to Hunt's well-received Meade and Lee After Gettysburg, this is a fast-paced, dynamic account of how the Army of Northern Virginia carried the war above the Rappahannock once more in an effort to retrieve the laurels lost in Pennsylvania on the fields of Gettysburg.
Meade and Lee After Gettysburg covers the often overlooked period repairing the armies after Gettysburg, coping with an epidemic of desertions and home front disenchantment, and a host of logistical and strategic dilemmas. číst celé
In addition to politics, strategy, and tactics, Hunt's pen ably examines the intricate command relationships, Lee's questionable decision-making, and the courageous spirit of the fighting men.
This major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.