Robert E.Lee's Civil War - Tapa blanda

Through Bevin Alexander's powerful descriptions and analyses of bloody battles, heroic charges, and desperate retreats, he paints a controversial picture of the South's most revered military figure - Robert E. Lee.

This provocative, carefully researched look at the crucial moments of the Civil War reads with previously found only in dramatic novels such as The Killer Angels.Through Bevin Alexander's powerful descriptions and analyses of bloody battles, heroic charges, and desperate retreats, he paints a controversial picture of the South's most revered military figure -- Robert E. Lee. While Lee gets full credit as an inspiring leader and an effective defensive tactician, Alexander demonstrates how Lee's strategic blunders decimated the Army of Northern Virginia and ultimately lost the Civil War.