Vistas of American Military History 1800-1898

<p>A team of leading American military historians here investigate the factors that shaped the United States Army in the nineteenth century.</p><p>Throwing new light on its history this deeply researched book explores a mulitplicity of themes. These include the social structure command system and relationship with civil power which are all important in assessing its efficiency and behaviour in war; and the way the army is depicted in military literature and cinema which affects its social portrait.</p><p>Deliberately exploring neglected themes this key work includes discussion on:</p><p>* the roles of the many volunteer colonels in the Mexican War 1846-48<br>* Robert Wettemann and the alleged 'isolation' of the US Army in the nineteenth century<br>* John Ford's famous 'cavalry trilogy' of motion pictures.</p><p>Containing so much food for thought for students of US history and military history this is an entertaining as well as instructional book.</p>