Author: Carr, Matthew 1955-
Publication year: 2015.
Language: English
Call Number E476.69 .C37 2015
Media class: Book
Publisher: New York, NY : The New Press
ISBN: 9781595589552 1595589554
Extent: 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description: "Matthew Carr offers an ... assessment of the impact Sherman's policies have had on subsequent wars, including in the Philippines, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and even Iraq and Afghanistan. Sherman's Ghosts opens with a ... retelling of General Sherman's fateful decision to turn his sights on the South's civilian population in order to break the back of the Confederacy. Carr then exposes how this strategy became the central preoccupation of war planners in the twentieth century and beyond"--Dust jacket.
Introduction : from Georgia to FM 3-24 -- part 1. The March. The iron hand of war -- Uncle Billy's war -- The destruction machine -- Civilians and soldiers -- "More perfect peace" -- part 2. Legacies. Soldiers -- Civilians -- The new American way of war -- Wars without war -- Epilogue.