Did Confederate armies attack too often for their own good? Was the relentless; sometimes costly effort to preserve territory a blunder? Why great battles in Pennsylvania; Maryland; Virginia; and Tennessee rather than well-laid ambushes in Alabama's sandhills or the pine forests of the Carolinas? These questions about Confederate strategy have dogged historians since Appomattox. Many have come to believe that the South might have won the Civil War if it had only avoided head-on battles; conducted an aggressive guerrilla campaign; and maneuvered across wide swaths of territory to exhaust the Union's willingness to continue the war. Retreat to Victory? Confederate Strategy Reconsidered challenges this widely held theory. Robert G. Tanner argues that deep retreats and battle avoidance (the strategy of maneuver rather than combat) were not available to Southern leaders in planning their wartime strategy. The South fought as it did for valid reasons; according to Tanner; and this book examines these reasons in detail; including the South's need to protect its slave-based economy; to establish a state's rights-oriented government; and to win independence from the Union. Tanner uses Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz's classic On War as a means for evaluating Confederate actions. On War provides a single measure for testing claims that the South could have prevailed by avoiding battles and forcing the Union to hold large tracts of land. Provocative and carefully researched; Retreat to Victory offers a fresh perspective on Confederate strategy and makes an important contribution to the field that no serious student of American history will want to miss.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Shambala by Victoria LePageBy SeakerA really fascinating Truth! You trust it because you feel the author's profound personal spiritual experience and deep research behind the book.Though unbelievable from the current materialistic point of view; nevertheless; this book provides a reliable explanation of what is going on with our planet Earth; and of what we can expect in the very near future; when the energy axis - the bridge connecting the Earth to the Cosmos - will come into harmony with the geagraphical and magnetic ones. It is in fact a book of synthesis of the understandings on energy in its different forms; history in its different times and even time systems; geography in different planes of our planet; and human properties and capabilities including those we don't yet fully understand and expect to have. This is one of those still rear books that take the reader into the dimensions we usually don't visit; but can and will in our common future.Roza Riaikkenen; author "The Laws of Life"...++++++++++++++1 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Great book.By Ken HubarGreat book; lots of good references; wonderful overall view of bringing all the information together in one place; great investigative and metaphysical/intuitive journey. Inspiring to the Spirit! Thank you Victoria LePage.29 of 36 people found the following review helpful. This book is for serious seekers of the truth of ShambhalaBy Walter G. Jones Jr.There are no coincidences in life. I believe that all we read; we read for a purpose of which we are generally not aware and messages to us are interlaced within. The question becomes; 'Do we recognize the messages?' And if you are blessed with the 'coincidences' that I have experienced in leading up to this book; or decipher the messages there for you; it's rewards can propel you far in your pursuit of the understanding of life and your place in it. As the title suggests; the book is fascinating. And if you believe in or have a fascination with Eastern philosophy and/or religion; this book will heighten that fascination. For me it has been an amazing personal and life-altering journey. This isn't to say that everyone will experience the same. But I can only hope that all who read it have a comparable experience. Shambhala does indeed exist and the sooner 'society' realizes it; the sooner we can all change the disasterous course that the world seems headed towards.
