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Title: Better served elsewhere
Review: Probably closer to two and a half stars.While someone new to Sherman will get something from this book, the best biography still is Marszalek's. The Sherman in this book comes across (at least to me) as a cardboard man at times, which, having read Marszalek's book (and others), I knew not to be the case.Although the book covers his whole life and is over 400 pages, most of the important military aspects of his career (look at the subtitle) are given little coverage. A couple of pages each for Shiloh, Chattanooga, not much better for the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea!Analysis of Sherman's relationship with Grant is cursory, which is a pity, because this axis was the major factor in the Union's triumph in 1864-65.I don't intend to keep my copy now that I have read it.
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