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Title: Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (The American South Series) by Stephen Cushman ISBN: 0-8139-2041-8 Publisher: University Press of Virginia Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: And Now For Something Completely Different
Comment: Just when it seemed that there could be nothing new written about the Civil War, along comes Stephen Cushman with this extraordinary book. Although Mr. Cushman focuses exclusively on a few days in one location during the Civil War and fills the book with fascinating minutiae about those days and that location, this book could be profitably read by someone with no interest in the Civil War or, for that matter, history. For the theme of Mr. Cushman's book is evidence, perception and comprehension: how do we know something? What information can we rely on? How can we believe what we see, read or hear? If this sounds boring, believe me it isn't, but it is crucial to consider these questions in this era where people will argue with a straight face that there are any number of truths depending on what the meaning of is is. Each chapter deals with a different source of information concerning the Battle of the Wilderness: everything from memoirs, diaries and letters to roadsigns, newsweeklies and reenactments. One comes to understand that there is a truth that is attained through many forms of flawed half-truths. This is brilliantly captured when, after many chapters of contradictory and confusing accounts of the battle, the author wraps up his book with a short, dispassionate account of what actually occurred. This is the most profound book which is actually fun to read that I know.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unique essays on the Civil War
Comment: This is an interesting and accessible book for anyone interested in the Civil War. In a series of reflections on various aspects of the battle of the Wilderness, Cushman explores the nature of war representation and the fascination that the war continues to hold over a hundred years after Appomattox. He weaves in personal experience and primary documents, using prose that is both personal, even idiosyncratic, and fluid. He is a wonderful writer, and the book will make you think about the Civil War and its legacy in new ways.
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Title: The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War) by Gary W. Gallagher ISBN: 0807823341 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea ISBN: 0807118737 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 0395867614 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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