Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War

by Michael C.C. Adams

Book Overview

A senior military historian presents an unflinching account of the human costs of the Civil War.

Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who cannot ultimately simulate mutilation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421412217
• ISBN13: 9781421412214
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher