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Title: Landscape Turned Red : The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 0-618-34419-5 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Perhaps Sears's Best Book (Which Says A Lot)
Comment: This book is a fantastic narrative starting with the last days of defeat for Pope and ending with McClellan headed for home after being dismissed.
Much of the book (especially before the battle) focuses on McClellan, his mentality, and the political intrigue that was such a trademark in the Army of the Potomac. McClellan clearly believed he would be the savior via Divine Intervention. Sears will have us believe he was the savior...of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The battle itself is told in extensive detail (although I felt the battle at South Mountain and Harper's Ferry were rather short) and scrutinized closely, something McClellan made very easy for any armchair quarterback reading this account. It seemed to me that there was less first hand accounts in this book than in other Sears books but it's possible that this is the case simply because Antietam was fought on just the 17th.
Inbetween all of that, Sears provides a clear picture of what Southern occupation of Maryland towns were like, the men's feelings for their officers, and of course the inexplicable Lost Order.
Like all his other books, this one is certainly a must read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book out there on America's bloodiest day
Comment: Having just toured the Antietam battlefield, I once again appreciate how good of a book this is. The story of Antietam is one not so much of what did happen but what might have been. Lee had his back to the river and was heavily outnumbered. McClellan once again had another chance to deal a crushing blow to Lee and once again due to his inability to press the fight let's him off the hook.
As much as anything this book is about the generals and how they approach the battle as it is about who shot who where and when. On the one side you have Lee moving his troops from one end of the field to another in perhaps his greatest achievement of the war. On the other side you have McClellan who is frozen by indecisiveness.
As for the writing style, Sears again shows why he's one of the more talented writers in the Civil War genre today. The book reads like a good novel thanks to Sears's writing talents. This book is easly the best book out there on the battle of Antietam and I highly recommend it to anyone.
Rating: 4
Summary: 23,000 Casualties in One Day!
Comment: The number says it all: The carnage of the Antietam battlefield was other worldly.
Lee's Army of Northern Virginia is broken, scattered across 20 miles of Maryland country side, vastly outnumbered and fights with its back to the Potomac River while the Army of the Potomac is complete, focused and in possession of Lee's battle plan. So why did they fight to a draw? Why was Lee allowed to escape? Why was this battle fought piecemeal allowing Lee to shift his troops from sector to sector? Why was one complete Union Division held in reserve and never engaged? Why was their no pursuit?
This battle is living proof that the South's best general was not Robert E. Lee. The South's finest general, their most consistent and dependable general, was Union commander George B. McClellan. Stephen W. Sears pens an epic, the best and most complete analysis of not only how Antietam happened but why.
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Title: Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 039587744X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 22 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 0395867614 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: To The Gates of Richmond : The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 0618127135 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Hallowed Ground : A Walk at Gettysburg by JAMES M. MCPHERSON ISBN: 0609610236 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas by John J. Hennessy ISBN: 080613187X Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.02 |
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