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Grant The Forgotten Hero (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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“Castigated by some, immortalized by few and forgotten by most.” Hardly a fitting tribute to one of America’s greatest heroes. Grant The Forgotten Hero chronicles the story of Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War. Ask an American what they remember about Ulysses S. Grant and they will recall that he was a heavy drinker, not that he was the President, nor one of the world’s greatest generals. An unusual legacy for the man most responsible for preserving this great nation. This book portrays Grant as an incredibly modest and humble man, perhaps the reason his true character failed to shine through. It tackles the old myths, head on, through logical analysis of the historical record and disproves most of the legend that has distorted his extraordinary military accomplishments. During the war, Grant captured three enemy armies intact and came within a whisker of capturing four, a feat unequalled in history and over so great a foe as Robert E. Lee. Ulysses S. Grant was one of America's greatest heroes, who sadly most Americans have forgotten.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005J87L28
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Charles H. Vessey; 1° edizione (25 agosto 2011)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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Joseph Cummins
5,0 su 5 stelle Grant was a true hero and that cannot be forgotten
Recensito in Canada il 4 luglio 2013
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Grant showed brilliant in the Mexican war invasion of Mexico city the provided good commands in California and Oregon but was lost for a time by bad luck. He showed his true brilliance in the civil war campaigns in the west along with Sherman and McLeod He took over for the end in the East. Grant was noted for dressing as a private during the battles but that was a simple recognition of the effective snipers in the southern army. .Grant always wrote wonderfully clear orders and his writings telll a full and honest report. A truly great soldier who was ahead of the times.
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Hill Country Bob
5,0 su 5 stelle Grant was a truly great military leader
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 3 gennaio 2013
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An excellent Civil War biography of U. S. Grant, the commander of the Union forces. I have read a number of books on Grant, including his autobiography that he wrote while he was sick and dying from throat cancer. This is an excellent military biography covering the Civil War.

Grant wrote very well, plainly, and directly. His orders during the Civil War were also direct, and not ambiguous. He was not always well served by his subordinates, but given the number of essentially non professional volunteers making up the Union army it is probably not really a surprise. Grant was not a self promoter during the war. He got along well with his colleges and with the Navy during combined operations. He utilized the forces given to him to accomplish the assigned tasks, and did not continually whine about the enemy having as larger army. He was always aggressive, and always believed in attacking the enemy. An early war experience where he was concerned about the actions of his enemy led to to realize that his opponent was as concerned about what Grant would do, as Grant was concerned about what he would do.

He started the war out west, and defeated the Confederates at Fort Henry and then at Fort Donaldson, where he captured the Confederate Army with the assistance of Admiral Foote of the Navy and his armored river boats. Grant and Foote got on well together and ran an integrated campaign with both services contributing to victory. The second Confederate Army that Grant captured was at Vicksburg after a long and difficult campaign. At the end of the war he defeated R. E. Lee and his army of Northern Virginia, and captured this army to essentially end the war.

He was a polite, quiet and modest man during the war and easy to get on with for the people around him. He wore a privates uniform with only his badges of rank, and tended to look somewhat dishelved, and not a fashion plate. This book correctly portrays him as one of our military heroes, and a truly great leader.
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David
4,0 su 5 stelle Grant the Forgotten Hero
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 20 agosto 2012
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As someone who enjoys reading about the American Civil War I found this a very interesting read. I gained some new perspectives on things, however the author was quite repetitive at times.
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wxwax
4,0 su 5 stelle Detailed but not balanced
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 7 marzo 2013
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This is a fascinating book, if you like your history in depth and in detail. I'm a civil war neophyte and I felt I learned a tremendous amount about a pivotal figure in the history of the United States.

However, it's obvious this book was not written by a professional historian and that it is self-published. Frankly, it's a hagiography, as the author admits virtually no mistakes by U.S. Grant, save two. It seems unlikely that the man was so bereft of blemishes.

Other than the typos and word-use mistakes, the author is given to awful hyperbole. I lost count of the number of times a person or event was the most daring, the most desperate, the most whatever "in the history of the world." Really? The Civil War was responsible for so many firsts in the entire recorded history of the human race? A good editor would have lopped that stuff off in his first pass because it hurts the author's credibility and it diminishes our belief in his sense of his perspective.

That aside, dive deep into this lengthy biography. It begins with the beginning of the war and ends with the (spoiler alert!) surrender of Robert. E. Lee to Grant. It exhaustively examines every single armed action that even tangentially involved Grant. Part of the reason for this book's length is that it gives us, unedited, a huge number of Grant's written orders, as well as copies of his letters to his wife, to his superiors and to General Sherman.

The number of quoted documents gets to be a little much by the end. But there's no denying that the author extensively documents the claims he makes on behalf of Grant.

His basic premise is that Grant was an unsurpassed military leader and strategist, and that he has been hard done by by "professional" historians (including PBS) who misunderstand his planning and foresight and who give too much credence to scurrilous rumors about his drinking and callous disregard for human life. Having read this book I come away entirely convinced that Grant rarely drank and never got drunk on duty. That he was a towering figure of military acumen and achievement. And that he was not a butcher of men.

So, mission accomplished by the author. If you have the time, I think this meticulously researched and documented book is well worth the effort.
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Felix Danilo Ayala
3,0 su 5 stelle Three Stars
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 25 novembre 2016
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Good book
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