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Title: And Keep Moving On
Subtitle: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
Author: Mark Grimsley
Narrator: Michael Piotrasch
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 07-19-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
And Keep Moving On is the first book to see the Virginia campaign of spring 1864 as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee saw it: a single, massive operation stretching hundreds of miles. The story of the campaign is also the story of the demise of two great armies. The scale of casualties and human suffering that the campaign inflicted makes it unique in US history. Mark Grimsley's study, however, is not just another battle book. Grimsley places the campaign in the political context of the 1864 presidential election; appraises the motivation of soldiers; appreciates the impact of the North's sea power advantage; questions conventional interpretations; and examines the interconnections among the major battles, subsidiary offensives, and raids.
The book is published by University of Nebraska Press.
Critic Reviews:
"Engagingly written, thoroughly researched, and thought provoking, Grimsley's And Keep Moving On is the best single-volume history of the Overland Campaign yet published." (Gordon Rhea)
"High quality of research, analysis, and storytelling.... An excellent synthesis of a sprawling military operation that extended well beyond the lines of Grant and Lee." (The Journal of Southern History)
Members Reviews:
Not Great but Very Good
The author ,with an eye for detail supported by meticulous and diligent research,describes the most awesome and grueling part of the Civil War.It is the"blood,sweat and tears" campaign of Grant in the Wilderness and beyond,the threshold of the conquest of Richmond and the collapse of the South. Although this took longer the vital crack happened in this inglorious period of time.
As the author observes,in this Falkenhaynean strategy Grant had no other approach than to keep battering at the wall and hoping to prise
the stones loose.The difference is that Grant unlike all his predecessors pursued his strategy to its logical end.
Describing this very important part of the Civil War is not an easy subject,for most of the actions are without flair or impressive results in a short time as for example in Gettysburg.
The author is no Selby but it is unfair to expect fine prose from so grim a subject.The text however has didactic value some times overdone.The maps are very useful and well done.
Overall it is an honest day's work and the reader is well and intelligently informed,some times overinformed about these ,great in their consequences events.The criticism is addressed more to the editor than the author.
It is a well written and well presented text although it will not get the first prize in litterature but then, this was not the purpose for which it was written.It provides a very sober and very valuable analysis of events ,decisions,consequences and judgements hence,that are the deepest and fairest written on the subject to my knowledge.
The book deserves a good place in the Civil War library.
,D.V.Kokkinos
easy to read
Well written, informative, easy to read.
Overland, but not Overrated
Excellent one volume treatment of the Overland Campaign. If you only read one book on this subject, read this one. Very readable and just the right level of detail.
Five Stars
Awesome book on the overland campaign.
