Lees Lieutenants: A Study in Command (abridged edition)

Douglas Southall Freeman (abridged in one volume by Stephen W. Sears; introduction by James M. McPherson)

ISBN 10: 0684833093 / ISBN 13: 9780684833095

Published by New York: Scribner, 1998

About this Item

Thick octavo. B&W illustrations, maps. Condition: bottom edge of half-title and title pages badly creased (manufacturing defect); label on 1st free endpaper; else VG/VG. 910 pages.

Seller Inventory # 8161

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lees Lieutenants: A Study in Command (abridged edition)
• Publisher: New York: Scribner
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684833093
• ISBN 13: 9780684833095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Book Club Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Featuring a detailed, fold-out campaign map, fifty-four smaller maps, and photographs, a one-volume abridgement of a monument in the landscape of Civil War literature traces the course of the war as seen through the eyes of Lee's field officers.

About the Author

Douglas Southall Freeman was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1886, the son of a Confederate soldier. After receiving a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University at the age of twenty-two, he embarked on a newspaper career. He was named the editor of the Richmond News Leader at the age of twenty-nine, a post he would hold for thirty-four years. In 1915, Freeman was commissioned to write a one-volume biography of Robert E. Lee; twenty years later, his four-volume R. E. Lee won the Pulitzer Prize. The three volumes of Lee's Lieutenants took him a relatively modest eight years to complete. He won another Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume biography of George Washington, which he finished only hours before his death in 1953.