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First published in 1957, this second edition of the analysis of the generalship of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee remains one of the most readable histories of the Civil War. The author began his research sharing the generally held assumption that Lee was a great general and Grant a clumsy “butcher.” By the time Fuller completed his project, however, he regarded Grant as the greatest general of his age and one of the greatest strategists of any age. Grant and Lee is a compelling study not only of two remarkable men but also of the nature of leadership and command in wartime.
“...cuts squarely across the accepted tradition...[Fuller] examines these two great soldiers from a fresh viewpoint and refuses to let himself be bound by tradition.”—Bruce Catton, New York Times Book Review
“...a stimulating study which appreciates both the unique personalities of the protagonists and the social conditions which stamped their tactics.”—Commonweal
“Fuller’s...analysis and comparison of the personality, leadership, and generalship of Grant and Lee is as readable, instructive, stimulating, and...controversial as when first published.”—Military Review
“...cuts squarely across the accepted tradition...[Fuller] examines these two great soldiers from a fresh viewpoint and refuses to let himself be bound by tradition.”—Bruce Catton, New York Times Book Review
“...a stimulating study which appreciates both the unique personalities of the protagonists and the social conditions which stamped their tactics.”—Commonweal
“Fuller’s...analysis and comparison of the personality, leadership, and generalship of Grant and Lee is as readable, instructive, stimulating, and...controversial as when first published.”—Military Review
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Maj.-Gen J. F. C. Fuller
John Frederick Charles “Boney” Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO (1 September 1878 - 10 February 1966) was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorizing principles of warfare. With 45 books and many articles, he was a highly prolific author whose ideas reached army officers and the interested public. He explored the business of fighting, in terms of the relationship between warfare and social, political, and economic factors in the civilian sector, and emphasized the potential of new weapons, especially tanks and aircraft, to stun a surprised enemy psychologically. Born in 1878 at Chichester in West Sussex, the son of an Anglican clergyman, he trained at the Royal Military College in Sandhurst from 1897-1898. He was commissioned into the 1st Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry (the old 43rd Foot) and served in South Africa from 1899-1902. He served as an adjutant to the 2nd South Middlesex Volunteers and helped form the 10th Middlesex. During WWI, he was a staff officer with the Home Forces and with 7 Corps in France, and from 1916 in the Headquarters of the Machine-Gun Corps’ Heavy Branch (later Tank Corps). He helped plan the tank attack at the 20 November 1917 Battle of Cambrai and the tank operations for the Autumn offensives of 1918. After the war, he became military assistant to the chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1926, was promoted to major general in 1930, and retired in 1933 to devote himself entirely to writing. He served as a reporter during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia (1935) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). His ideas on mechanized warfare continued to be influential in the lead-up to WWII. Fuller died in Falmouth, Cornwall in 1966.
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