John Esten Cooke

A Life Of General Robert E. Lee (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

John Esten Cooke's A Life of General Robert E. Lee is a biography of the venerable commander of the army of the Confederate States of America.

Offered a commission in the Union army by President Lincoln in 1861, the distinguished career officer and combat engineer opted instead to follow his home state of Virginia out of the Union. Lee quickly developed a reputation as a gifted battlefield tactician, defeating larger Northern forces again and again, although this talent was not enough to overcome the industrial and financial strengths of the North. Today, Lee is a much admired military figure and continues to be as revered in the North as he was in the South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Canada
• Seitenzahl: 566
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781443428934
• Artikelnr.: 41009649

Autorenporträt

John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, poet and Civil-War veteran best-known for his writings about his home state of Virginia. Although trained as a lawyer, Cooke was able to support himself with his writing from the very beginning of his career, and eventually produced more than 200 published works, including the novels The Virginia Comedians and The Wearing of the Gray, and biographies about General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson. Although Cooke served under General J. E. B. Stuart during the American Civil War, he was not suited to military life and returned to his writing at the war's end. Cooke died 1886 and is commemorated in the John Esten Cooke Fiction Award, awarded annually by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars.