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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 I

Wongsrichanalai, Kanisorn
Silbey, David J.

Hardcover

Series: Modern War Studies

Armed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 0700635378
ISBN13: 9780700635375
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: Jul 11 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 America's past whereas World War I was a modern prelude to World War II, a conflict still in living memory. Wars Civil and Great breaks down these barriers of time and memory and shows how close and how similar these two conflicts really were in the American experience. Setting both wars in the long nineteenth century, the authors of this volume reveal how the Civil War cast its long shadow over the events of World War I. President Wilson looked to Lincoln during the Great War for guidance on national leadership at wartime; General John J. Pershing remembered the Civil War of his childhood and sought to learn lessons from Grant and McClellan; and the doughboys on European battlefields held firm to the culture of honor and duty that had inspired their forefathers to take up arms.

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