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Weirding the War - Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,764
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Weirding the War - Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges (Hardcover, New): Stephen Berry

Weirding the War - Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges (Hardcover, New)

Stephen Berry

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"It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war ter-rible again. Taking a "freakonomics" approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about "damage," even at its most heroic and even when certain people and things deserve to be damaged.

Here then is not only the grandness of the Civil War but its more than occasional littleness. Here are those who profited by the war and those who lost by it--and not just those who lost all save their honor, but those who lost their honor too. Here are the cowards, the coxcombs, the belles, the deserters, and the scavengers who hung back and so survived, even thrived. Here are dark topics like torture, hunger, and amputation. Here, in short, is war.

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Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2011
First published: October 2011
Editors: Stephen Berry
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 352
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3413-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war
Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
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LSN: 0-8203-3413-8
Barcode: 9780820334134

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