The Class Of 1846
Trade cloth edition in near fine condition. Dust jacket with no price point shown. Full number line starting with 1. Stated first edition, first printing. Mylar cover included.
“It looked like the beginning of a warm relationship based on a common lunacy.”
In this most entertaining and readable book, Waugh offers a collective biography of a class of West Pointers and their careers from when they entered the academy through the end of the Civil War. The two most prominent members of the class were George McClellan and Thomas Jackson; the better student proved the poorer general. In focusing on their careers, Waugh inevitably gives short shrift to the conflict after classmates George Pickett and John Gibbon confronted each other at Gettysburg. The stories are familiar but retold rather well; much less is made of the common experiences of the group and their impact on their generalship. Buffs and lay readers will nevertheless enjoy this well-written chronicle.
Trade cloth edition in near fine condition. Dust jacket with no price point shown. Full number line starting with 1. Stated first edition, first printing. Mylar cover included.
“It looked like the beginning of a warm relationship based on a common lunacy.”
In this most entertaining and readable book, Waugh offers a collective biography of a class of West Pointers and their careers from when they entered the academy through the end of the Civil War. The two most prominent members of the class were George McClellan and Thomas Jackson; the better student proved the poorer general. In focusing on their careers, Waugh inevitably gives short shrift to the conflict after classmates George Pickett and John Gibbon confronted each other at Gettysburg. The stories are familiar but retold rather well; much less is made of the common experiences of the group and their impact on their generalship. Buffs and lay readers will nevertheless enjoy this well-written chronicle.
Trade cloth edition in near fine condition. Dust jacket with no price point shown. Full number line starting with 1. Stated first edition, first printing. Mylar cover included.
“It looked like the beginning of a warm relationship based on a common lunacy.”
In this most entertaining and readable book, Waugh offers a collective biography of a class of West Pointers and their careers from when they entered the academy through the end of the Civil War. The two most prominent members of the class were George McClellan and Thomas Jackson; the better student proved the poorer general. In focusing on their careers, Waugh inevitably gives short shrift to the conflict after classmates George Pickett and John Gibbon confronted each other at Gettysburg. The stories are familiar but retold rather well; much less is made of the common experiences of the group and their impact on their generalship. Buffs and lay readers will nevertheless enjoy this well-written chronicle.
ISBN 0-446-51594-9
John C. Waugh
1994