Soldiers and Scholars

The U.S. Army and the Uses of Military History, 1865-1920

• Author(s): Carol Reardon,
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Pages: 270
• ISBN_10: 0700604669
  ISBN_13: 9780700604661
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Military / United States ,

Description:... The use and abuse of military history is the theme of this book. The author scrutinizes the army's first systematic attempt to use military history to educate its future leaders and traces the army's struggle, from the end of the Civil War, to claim intellectual authority over the study of war.