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Weirding The War: Stories From The Civil War's Ragged Edges (uncivil Wars Ser.) by Stephen Berry is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 ter­rible 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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Author

Stephen Berry

Publisher

The University of Georgia Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820341279

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Historical Fiction, Social Science