Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

William Tecumseh Sherman possessed not only the most unusual middle name, but also the most orginal mind among Civil War generals. His great campaign of destruction through the South was 100 years ahead of its time and foreshadowed both the totality and mobility of WW II. His mind was imaginative and uncompromising, and no matter our profession, we can study its working with profit. "Liddell Hart was a great interpretive historian. He saw into the heart of things. He wrote with clarity and intelligence about men and events. His analyses, concerned as they are chiefly with conflict, cut through the superfluous and deal with bedrock issues of character and intelligence, qualities that determine how each of us fares in life." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)