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Chargement... Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combatpar Jonathan M. Steplyk
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Although it contains interesting details on combat in The civil war, it was frustrating because the author relies far too much on Grossman’s “On Killing”. He cites it continually in support of the claim that a significant portion of soldiers were very reluctant to kill their enemies in battle. But his sources in letters, diaries and memoirs do not adequately support the contention. At least he denied Grossman’s silliest claim: that the funding of hundreds of guns on the Gettysburg battlefield after the fighting, with multiple loads of unfired ammunition, indicates soldiers who only pretended to fire their weapons (!) ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"War means fighting, and fighting means killing." Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared. The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first book-length study of Union and Confederate soldiers' attitudes toward, and experiences of, killing in the Civil War. Drawing upon letters, diaries, and postwar reminiscences, Steplyk examines what soldiers and veterans thought about killing before, during, and after the war. How did these soldiers view sharpshooters? How about hand-to-hand combat? What language did they use to describe killing in combat? What cultural and societal factors influenced their attitudes? And what was the impact of race in battlefield atrocities and bitter clashes between white Confederates and black Federals? These are the questions that Steplyk seeks to answer in Fighting Means Killing, a work that bridges the gap between military and social history--and that shifts the focus on the tragedy of the Civil War from fighting and dying for cause and country to fighting and killing. "-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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