What do you think of Jeff Shaara’s take on Sherman?
I’ve listened to his four-volume work on the western theatre a good number of times, which led me to have much more appreciation for Sherman than I had had before.
Haven’t delved into Shaara’s work past Last Full Measure. No time. He has covered other wars, and conflicts. Not read the Western Theatre. A friend was highly impressed in the Western Theatre (one often overlooked vs. the East Coast), with the terrible loss of Major-Gen Patrick Cleburne in the Battle of Franklin. A battle which killed 6 important generals under Gen. Hood (who was by that time minus his right arm use, and his right leg amputated with a prosthesis that he had to be strapped into his saddle. And hooked on opium for the pain of all this). Cleburne’s story I believe is covered by Shaara- will have to look.
B.H. Liddell Hart’s Sherman was published in 1929 and the language used is, well, verbose to being sometimes difficult to read with old style English writing and phrases. But, it is thorough and one learns a lot about Sherman, the man and his relationship to Grant as well as military tactical genius. Georgia family of course spit on his name living as they did in the wake of his wasting of the State.