num_pages: 541
description: From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power.
language: English
title: The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson & the Americans
titlecomplete: The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson & the Americans
characters: William Tecumseh Sherman
genres: Biography, History, American History, Historical, War, American Civil War, Nonfiction, Civil War History, Civil War, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 233
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Lincoln Prize, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Charles S. Sydnor Award
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (NY)