This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

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

More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing 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.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780375703836
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2009-01-06
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780375703836

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780375703836
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2009-01-06
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780375703836

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