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The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]
The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]
The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]
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Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
Few military memoirs have had the impact of those of General Grant, a best-seller on publication, considered a classic ever since both but military and literary critics. Mark Twain reflected that he "had been comparing the memoirs with Caesar's Commentaries... I was able to say in all Apologetic forms that the same high merits distinguished both books - clarity of statement, directness, simplicity, manifest truthfulness, fairness and justice toward friend and foe alike and avoidance of flowery speech. General Grant was just a man, just a human being, just an author...The fact remains and cannot be dislodged that General Grant's book is a great, unique and unapproachable literary masterpiece. There is no higher literature than these modest, simple Memoirs. Their style is at least flawless, and no man can improve upon it."
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Author — General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in 1885-86, New York, C.L. Webster & Co.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 18, 2013
ISBN9781908902764
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