"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and milita
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great f
Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. Stephen Vincent Benet said, "There is a monument - and a fine one - to Robert E. Lee at Lexington. But this
Douglas Southall Freeman. Lee's Lieutenants. 3 Volume Set. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1970-1971]. Later editions. Three octavo volumes. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.Folding map at rear of volume 3. All unquestioned masterpiecc of the histo
An unquestioned masterpiece of the historian's art, and a towering landmark in the literature of the American Civil War.In "Gettysburg to Appomattox, " Douglas Southall Freeman concludes his monumental three-volume study of Lee's command of the Confederac
An unquestioned masterpiece of the historian's art, and a towering landmark in the literature of the American Civil War. Volume one of this magnificent three-volume narrative closed with the Confederate reorganization that followed the Seven Days' battles
