The American Civil War was fought with a new generation of weapons and trench systems similiar to those of World War II. This work reappraises the events, the weapons used, the men of the novice armies, their leaders and the strategies employed in the Civil War. It argues that the conditions of combat were little changed from those of earlier times and far from being the birthplace of modern battlefield tactics, the Civil War was in reality the last Napoleonic-style war.
- ISBN13 9781861260079
- Publish Date 24 June 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 February 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Crowood Press Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English