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Civil War Soldiers - Couverture souple

Mitchell, Reid

 
9780671686413: Civil War Soldiers
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0671686410 ISBN 13 : 9780671686413
Editeur : Pocket Books, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Mitchell Reid

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The soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were united by a common history, and yet the legacy of this past was ambiguous, upholding both rebellion and union. Union and Confederate men went to war as Americans, convinced they fought an un-American, savage enemy. The war they fought was as emotional and catastrophic as any in history, a violent crucible that forged a new national identity. Civil War Soldiers is a fresh and compelling attempt to fathom the war's significance—then and now—and makes immediate the charged issues and bitter ironies of a nation torn by a conflict over the common ideals of liberty and justice.

Drawing on diaries and letters, the focus of this pioneering study is on the men who fought, caught up in a conflict whose causes and consequences seemed as complex and contradictory to the soldiers themselves as they do to us. Reid Mitchell re-creates their experience and discusses the questions one would have most wanted to ask them: Why did you fight? How did you feel about slavery and race? What did you take home from the war? What legacy have you left us?

"Fresh insights, startling descriptions, and poignant human detail about the war from the men who fought it."—Chicago Tribune

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Éditeur
Pocket Books
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0671686410
ISBN 13 
9780671686413
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
274
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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