Audacity Personified
Subtitle: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780807129296
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: general; United States - Civil War; Lee, Robert E; Confederate States of America; Biography / Autobiography; Military; History; History: American; USA; Generals; Historical - U.S.; Biography; Lee, Robert E.; Military leadership; United States; (Robert Edward),; 1807-1870; Campaigns; Civil War, 1861-1865
First sentence: TO A PACKED AUDIENCE at the Old Army War College in 1936, Douglas Southall Freeman explained that a great general must differentiate "what was practicable from what was desirable."