Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War.
[1987] · New York
by Linderman, Gerald F.
New York: The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc., [1987]. Octavo, black leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, x, 357 pp. Fine (As New), in a like dust jacket. “...Gerald F. Linderman examines how Confederate and Union soldiers alike were drastically transformed by war, as they found the realities of battle alarmingly at odds with thier expectations. By the end, profoundly disillusioned, once idealistic soldiers were forced to call into question the nation’s notion of courage -- and an entire society’s perception of the war in which they alone had fought...A sensitve study of men at war, Embattled Courage goes beyond the confines of the Civil War, for it provides penetrating insights into the romantic myth of battle, the nature of soldiering, and the difficulties veterans of all wars face in returning to a civilian society that has escapted the experience of combat and thus has little understanding -- and very different memories -- of war itself.” (Inventory #: 70490s)