America's Civil War


The Operational Battlefield, 1861-1863

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By Brian Holden Reid
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Brian Holden Reid (London, England) is professor of American history and military institutions and head of the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. Since 1993, he has been a member of the Council of the Society for Army Historical Research and from 1998 to 2004 served as chairman. In 2004-2005, he was the first non-American to serve as a member of the Lincoln Prize jury panel, which awards the most important literary prize in the field of Civil War history. His many books include The Origins of the American Civil War and The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century.

"Within the vast range of Civil War literature, relatively few major works seriously address the operational art, such as it was. The middle volume of an unfinished trilogy, historian Brian Holden Reid's America's Civil War: The Operational Battlefield, 1861-1863 does just that... articulate, direct, confident, and thought provoking. Recommended." -- Civil War Books and Authors blog, September 25, 2008. "Any library serious about analysis will find this a winner." -- California Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review, March 2009 " He is equally skilled at tracing the political climate of the time and analyzing its effect. And therein lies the book's greatest attraction for the general reader: the opportunity for a deeper understanding of the many facets that were part of those chaotic times." -- Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, NJ) and Sunday Courier News (Bridgewater, NJ), March 15, 2009 "[It] should be on every student of the Civil War's reading list. Between its covers, most readers will find something that counters their preconceptions and challenged their level of understanding." -- America's Civil War magazine July 2009

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