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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

Faust, Drew Gilpin

Paperback

Series: Vintage Civil War Library

Armed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)General World History

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0375703837
ISBN13: 9780375703836
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 6 2009
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.44 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - An extraordinary ... profoundly moving history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation.

An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality.

With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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