"...PROVOCATIVE, CHALLENGING, INTELLIGENT!..HIS KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL MILITARY HISTORY ALLOWS HIM ABLE TO PUT THE CIVILWAR INTO A BROADER CONTEXT MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN ANYONE ELSE!...."  -  JAMES M. MCPHERSON, AUTHOR OF 'BATTLE CRYOF FREEDOM'.

"...AN ESSENTIAL READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT..."  -  MILITARY ILLUSTRATED.

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**"BATTLE TACTICS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR" BY PADDY GRIFFITH ** - SENIOR LECTURER IN THE WAR STUDIES AT THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY AT SANDHURST, ENGLAND, AND AUTHOR ON OTHER BOOKS ON MILITARY SUBJECTS

"...THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR  -  WHICH WAS FOUGHT WITH A NEW GENERATION OF WEAPONS AND TRENCH SUSTEMS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF WWI  -  HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN PORTRAYED AS THE 1ST MODERN WAR...NOW PADDY GRIFFITH ARGUES THAT THOSE INNOVATIONS DID NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON THE OUTCOME OR THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR!!!               FAR FROM BEING THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE MODERN BATTLEFIELD TACTICS, IT WAS IN REALITY THE 'LAST NAPOLEONIC WAR'!.."

"...REAPPRAISING THE EVENTS -  THE WEAPONS USED, THE MEN OF NOVICE ARMIES, THEIR LEADERS, AND THE STRATEGIES EMPLOYED - PADDY GRIFFITH ARGUES THAT DESPITE THE "RIFLE REVOLUTION", ATTACKS STILL TURNED INTO PROTRACTED FIREFIGHTS AT CLOSE RANGE...HE DEMONSTRATES THAT THE INDECISIVE OUTCOMES OF SO MANY CIVIL WAR BATLES - USUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WAREFARE - HAS LESS TO DO WITH THE MUTUAL DETERRENCE OF MASSIVE FIREPOWER THAN FACTORS SUCH AS TERRAIN, DOCTRINE AND COMMAND DECISIONS..."

"...PADDY GRIFFITH'S BOOK WILL BE OF INTENSE INTEREST TO MILITARY HISTORIANS AND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR FANS..."

IN HARDBACK,   SIZE; 1cm x 24cm,    239 PAGES,    WEIGHS IN AT 500gms

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ALSO AVAILABLE ;

"WITNESS TO GETTYSBURG"  BY RICHARD WHEELER

"...THIS IS EYEWITNESS AT ITS BEST!...USING THE WORDS OF PARTICIPANTS AND WITNESSES TO TELL THE DRAMATIC BUT FACTUAL STORY, RICHARD WHEELER DESCRIBES THE PIVOTAL BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR  -  GETTYSBURG...VIVID PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF GETTYSBURG RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN COMBINED WITH COMPELLING AND MOVING PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF UNION AND COFEDERATE SOLDIERS,  WHO SURVIVED THE ENTIRE THREE DAYS OF THE BATTLE AND LATER WROTE ABOUT THEM...

         ....THE RESULT IS A CHRONOLOGICAL NARRATIVE OF ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST HISTORICAL EPISODES  -  A REAL"YOU-ARE-THERE" EXPERIENCE THAT MAKES THIS TRAGIC AND GREAT EVENT COME ALIVE WITH VIVIDNESS....AND MAKES YOU UNDERSTAND HOW PREVIOUS SUCCESSES OF BOTH LEE AND HIS SOLDIERS LED THEM TO BELIEVE THEY COULD ONCE AGAIN OVERCOME STRONGLY ENTRENCHED UNION POSITIONS WITH COURAGEOUS BUT DOOMED FRONTAL ASSAULTS!....AND MEKES YOU AWARE OF THE DTERMINATION OF THE UNION DEFENDERS THAT THIS TIME, AT LAST ON UNION SOIL, THEY WOULD NOT GIVE WAY....

        ...TYING THESE GRIPPING PERSONAL ACCOUNTS INTO A SMMOTH-FLOWING NARRATIVE WITH SKILFUL EDITING AND,  WHERE NECESSARY, IIN HIS OWN WORDS,  RICHAR WHEELER PROVIDES A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ENTIRE GETTYSBURG EXPERIENCE!..."

PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK,   273 PAGES,  SOME BLACK/WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS

COVER DESIGN;  IRVING FREEMAN

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"LETHAL GLORY!  DRAMATIC DEFEATS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR" BY PHILIP KATCHER

"....THE DRAMA, PASSION AND EXCITEMENT OF 15 DISASTROUS AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BATTLES IS RECREATED IN'LETHAL GLORY! DRAMATIC DEFEATS OF THE AMERICAN IVIL WAR'.  THESE WERE BATTLES THAT SAW SOME OF THE LARGEST LOSSES IN THE WAR AND WHICH WERE A CATASTROPHE FOR THE LOSERS,  BUT REMAINED HOLLOW VICTORIES FOR THE VICTORS - SINCE NONE OF THES DEFEATS WERE FOLLOWED UP,  AND NONE WERE ENOUGH TO WIN THE WAR...

           ....RENOWN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN PHILIP KATCHER TELLS OF THE FRANTIC AND FRENZIED FIGHTING,  OF INEXPERIENCED UNTRAINED SOLDIERS,  ORDINARY MEN WHOSE BRAVERY AND LOYALTY TO THEIR COMRADE WOULD LEAD THEM TO THEIR DEATHS!...

          ....HE PORTRAYS WEAK AND INCOMPETANT COMMANDERS WHO OFTEN HAD NOT ENTERED THE GATES OF A MILITARY ACADEMY,  ISSUING ORDERS FROM SAFE AREAS FAR FROM THE BATTLEFIELD,  AS WELL AS GREAT MILITARY LEADERS WILLING TO FIGHT ALONGSIDE THEIR MEN - FOR A CAUSE IN WHICH THEY BELIEVED...

          ...THE FIFTEEN BATTLES RETOLD INCLUDE THE FIRST ACTION OF THE WAR - WHEN FEDERAL TROOPS IN FORT SUMTER. WERE FORCED TO SURRENDER TO THEIR SOUTHERN ATTACKERS...THROUGH THE FIERCE BATTLE AT FORT STEDMAN - THE LAST BATTLE FOUGHT BY THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA (LED BY GENERAL ROBERT E LEE) - WHER THE CONFEDERATES SUFFERED SOME OF THE HEAVIEST CASUALTIES OF THE ENTIRE WAR!...

           ...PHILIP KATCHER INCLUDES FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF THE UNITS INVOLVED AND THE EFFECTS OF EACH PARTICULAR ACTION  ON THE CAMPAIGN AS A WHOLE,  AS WELL AS PROVIDING VIVID CHARACTER STUDIES OF THE PRINCIPLE FIGURES IN EACH BATTLE..."

*THIS EXCITING BOOK WILL APPEAL TO CIVI; WAR AND GENERAL HISTORIANS AND STUDENTS OF HISTORY,  WHLIE ENTERTAINING LOVERS OF ADVENTURE NON-FICTION, WARGAMERS AND MODELLERS*

PUBLISHED IN PAPERBACK,   224 PAGES,  SOME ILLUSTRATIONS

JACKET PAINTING;  'HELL FOR GLORY - PICKETT'S CHARGE!' BT KEITH ROCCO

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