{"product_id":"atlanta-will-fall-9780842027885","title":"Atlanta Will Fall","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral John Bell Hood tried everything he could: Surprise attack. Flanking march. Cavalry raid into the enemy''s rear lines. Simply enduring his opponent''s semi-siege of the city. But nothing he tried worked. Because by the time he assumed command of Confederate forces protecting Atlanta, his predecessor Joe Johnston''s chronic, characteristic strategy of gradual withdrawal had doomed the city to fall to William T. Sherman''s Union troops. Joe Johnston lost Atlanta and John Bell Hood has gotten a bum rap, Stephen Davis argues in his new book, Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. The fall of the city was inevitable because Johnston pursued a strategy that was typical of his career: he fell back. Again and again. To the point where he allowed Sherman''s army to within five miles of the city. Against a weaker opponent, Johnston''s strategy might have succeeded. But Sherman commanded superior numbers, and he was a bold, imaginative strategist who pre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent analysis of the Atlanta campaign, from Dalton to Jonesboro, with an explanation of the mistakes General Joe Johnston made that allowed Sherman to succeed. * The Atlanta Journal-Constitution *\u003cbr\u003eDavis provides a ringing defense of General John Bell Hood who, he says, got a bum rap in the fall of Atlanta to Sherman's relentless pressure on the Confederate defenders. * Abilene Reporter-News (Texas) *\u003cbr\u003eDemolishes old myths and replaces them with new truths, and does so in a fashion that is as hard-hitting as a 20-pounder Parrott shell striking its target. To be read with profit and joy. -- Albert Castel, author of Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864\u003cbr\u003eA lively, virgorously argued study. Steve Davis contends that William T. Sherman's confident handling of a numerically superior force against the faltering Joseph E. Johnston rendered Union success inevitable. Davis's assessments of Sherman, Johnston, and John Bell Hood are sure to spark controversy, but they cannot be ignored. -- Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University, author of Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity\u003cbr\u003eA first-rate tactical study of a pivotal Civil War battle. Steve Davis's favorable evaluation of John Bell Hood's performance at Atlanta and his condemnation of Joe Johnston will not please all readers, but it will certainly cause them to take another look at this crucial military engagement. -- John F. Marszalek, Mississippi State University\u003cbr\u003eSteve Davis has produced a book that will add much to the debate now raging about the conduct of the war in the crucial Western theater. Agree or disagree, you'll have to take his ideas into account. -- Richard McMurry, author of \u003ci\u003eAtlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 I Johnston's Retreat to Atlanta; or, A Smart and Scrappy Sherman Uses His Strength to Cow and Bludgeon an Outnumbered, Less Resolute Opponent Chapter 2 Introduction: the Sherman-Johnston Match-up in Mississsippi, July 1863, as Omen of Atlant's Fall Chapter 3 How Joe Johnston Earned His Reputation for Retreating Chapter 4 Sherman Prepares to Advance Chapter 5 Johnston Prepares to Fall Back Chapter 6 Johnston Is Turned, I Chapter 7 The Battle of Resaca (Johnston Is Turned, II) Chapter 8 To Cassville Chapter 9 To New Hope Church and Back tot he Railroad (Johnston Is Turned, Again) Chapter 10 The Mountain Lines, June 5-July 2, 1864 Chapter 11 Johnston Is Yet Again Turned, at the Chattahoochee Chapter 12 The Government concludes Johnston Has Failed: Deliberations and the Decision to Replace Him, July 10-17 Chapter 14 How Hood Learned War from Lee and Jackson in Virginia Part 14 II Hood Struggles Against the Inevitable; or, How Even a Student of the \"Lee and Jackson School\" Could Not Prevent the Fall of Atlanta Chapter 15 Hood's Attack Against Thomas's Army: Peachtree Creek, July 20, 1864 Chapter 16 Hood Attempts Another Chancellorsville, July 22 Chapter 17 Hood's Third Sortie Again Attempts a Flank Attack: Ezra Church, July 28 Chapter 18 Hood Keeps His Army together While Enduring Sherman's Semi-Siege Chapter 20 Hood Does What Joe Johnston Only Dreamed About: He Sends His Cavalry Off to Cut Sherman's Raili Lines, August 10 Chapter 21 Hood is Unable to Parry sherman's \"Movement Round Atlanta by the South,\" August 25-September 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038797005143,"sku":"9780842027885","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780842027885.jpg?v=1750941476","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/atlanta-will-fall-9780842027885","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}