Uncertain Glory: Lee's Generalship Re-Examined
By John D. McKenzie.
Description
1997 Hippocrene hardcover, John D. McKenzie (On Time, On Target: The World War II Memoir of a Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne). McKenzie, a contributor to Civil War magazine, reexamines General Robert E. Lee's military skills. MacKenzie's work is bound to stir up controversy, because he claims that Lee wasted lives with pointless attacks, created an inefficient staff structure, was unable to take a long-term strategic view of the war, and could not adapt to the changing military technologies. It is easy, some 130 years after the war, to criticize a general's performance unde...
ISBN(s)
0781805023, 9780781805025
