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Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

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  • Nov 30, 1928
  • #Biography #History
B.H. Liddell Hart
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Sherman book. Read 26 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. When Liddell Hart's Sherman was first published in 1929, it received encomi...

Number of Pages: 474

ISBN: 0306805073

ISBN-13: 9780306805073

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Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday
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This was someone I knew little about before I read the book, and by the end of it found myself referencing and thinking of him constantly. It is equal parts due to the greatness of the man himself and to Hart’s vivid and engrossing portrait. I almost feel like I have lost something not having known this of him my whole life. There is a stunningly profound quote from Hart in the book that I’ll paraphrase here that defines his genius: Sherman’s success was rooted in his grasp that the way to success is strategically along the line of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance. It is that kind of thinking that immediately displaces any preceding notions about Sherman’s reputation as a general or a legend. All these myths belies his strategic acumen, his mastery of terrain and his deep understanding of statesmanship and politics. There is much to learn from the man and this biographer—who himself was a great strategist and mind.
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