Название: John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General
Автор: Stephen Hood
Издательство: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611211417
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 384
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 2,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
John Bell Hood was one of the Confederacy’s most successful—and enigmatic—generals. He died at 48 after a brief illness in August of 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. Published posthumously the following year, the memoirs immediately became as controversial as their author. A careful and balanced examination of these “controversies,” however, coupled with the recent discovery of Hood’s personal papers (which were long considered lost) finally sets the record straight in John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General.
Outlived by most of his critics, Hood’s published version of many of the major events and controversies of his Confederate military career were met with scorn and skepticism. Some described his memoirs as nothing more than a polemic against his arch-rival Joseph E. Johnston.