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Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
Written by B. H. Liddell Hart
Narrated by Derek Perkins
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A biography of William T. Sherman by the military theorist and author of Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon.
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B. H. Liddell Hart
Sir Basil Liddell Hart was a military strategist and writer of great acclaim, and one of the world's outstanding teacher-historians. Born in Paris in 1895, he was educated at Cambridge before serving on the Western Front with the Yorkshire Light Infantry after which he was military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and The Times. He evolved several military tactical developments including the Battle Drill system and was an early advocate of airpower and armoured forces. He lectured on strategy and tactics at staff colleges in numerous countries. His many books include biographies of several great commanders, and The Other Side of the Hill - his interviews with the Second World War's highest-ranking German generals. He was knighted in 1966 and died in 1970.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a workable biography of Sherman. I do not recommend it for any except the dedicated Civil War buff. Basil Liddell Hart, author, was a famous British strategist (the strategy of the indirect approach,) military historian and journalist in his day. His day has passed. Yes, it is better to approach a tactical, operational, or strategic problem indirectly, to avoid the costs of matching brute force to brute force. It is not so easily done. So yes, Sherman's tactical and operational methods did involve indirect approach in many cases. That is because he was a good general. LH faults Grant against Lee, but it is hard to see how Grant could have indirectly approached the Army of Northern Virginia. LH also has the annoying habit of most Briton's writing about the US (Paul Johnson excepted) of being suppercilious at a level just below the conscious. He is also racist, but he wrote in the 1930s, and was a product of his class and time.