... the Real War Will Never Get in the Books: Selections from Writers During the Civil War

by Louis P. Masur

Book Overview

"These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife, ) tried by terrible, fearfulest tests, probed deepest,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195068688
• ISBN13: 9780195068689
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

it was a good book

i thought it was full of interesting information and interesting facts not normally exposed in us history books...