Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I

Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War IDescription By David J. Silbey and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai Paperback Although the Civil War and the Great War were fought only fifty years apart, the perceived time between these two cataclysmic events seems far longer in popular American memory: the Civil War was the centerpiece of the nineteenth century and lies deep in Americas past whereas World War I was a modern prelude to World War II, a conflict still in living memory. Wars Civil and Great

WWI writing and scholarship in this collection allows us

until Brett’s flirtation with a confident young bullfighter ignites jealousies that set their group alight

Clark delivers a lavishly detailed historical novel that doesn't just recreate the past but alters your perception of it…Clark puts her own stamp on this subject matter by taking the losses of the war as a given and concentrating on the survivors…The novel plays out like a study of every possible response to bereavement…Clark's descriptive powers provide deep pleasure…[She] is genuinely insightful when she's depicting people transformed and exposed by loss

Empires in World War I marks a turn away from the pre-eminence of the Western Front in the current scholarship

But despite all the attention paid to it

The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front

With elegance and pathos

executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled

classicists

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Some already belonged to either the Reserves or the Territorials and so found themselves immediately thrust into the front lines and casualty rates were high

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