How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat
- ISBN-10
- 0307346005
- ISBN-13
- 9780307346001
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 337
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-11
- Publisher
- Crown Forum
- Author
- Bevin Alexander
Description
A military historian and author of How Wars Are Won looks at the costly errors that cost the South victory during the Civil War and outlines the tactical and strategic approaches the Confederacy should have used that could have changed the course of the war. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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