Soldiers and scholars
Subtitle: the U.S. Army and the uses of military history, 1865-1920
By: Carol Reardon.
Series: Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas; Univ Pr of Kansas
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: United States. Army -- History.; Military art and science -- United States -- History.; United States -- History, Military.; United States -- Historiography.
Description: The use and abuse of military history is the theme of this book. The author scrutinizes the army's first systematic attempt to use military history to educate its future leaders and traces the army's struggle, from the end of the Civil War, to claim intellectual authority over the study of war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264) and index.