[lit-ideas] Re: Sherman's Memoirs, the Introduction
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:28:27 -0700
Fellman's CV is impressive: http://www.sfu.ca/gls/fellmancv.htm
I've neither met nor heard him.
Stanley Hirshson, wrote the 826 page biography of Patton that didn't
convey to me the essence of his generalship. His previous work was,
"The White Tecumseh: A Biography of General Sherman." The editorial
reviews on Amazon suggest that it may be both interesting and fair.
Hirshson's biography of Patton mentions Liddell-Hart's understanding
of mobility several times and you like L.H., so though I, having had
a full dose of Hirshson on Patton, am not going to pick "White
Tecumseh" up soon, you may consider doing so.
If I were at work I could leaf through the AHA's guide to historical
literature and give you a summary of current Sherman scholarship--
yes, we historians have a kind of a "cheat sheet"--but I'm doing my
best to avoid the building at present.
I have only a schoolboy's understanding of Cromwell, which is to say
that I learned the standard stuff when in school--rigid, cruel,
disciplined, opposite of flamboyant cavaliers--and haven't returned
to the subject since.
I haven't received a copy of the memoirs yet, so you're ahead of me.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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- [lit-ideas] Sherman's Memoirs, the Introduction
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