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Civil War Stories: Classic American War Stories from the Battlefields of the Civil War
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617207662
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Oct 23 2012
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Civil War Stories collects Ambrose Bierce's stark, unsentimental fiction of battle, memory, terror, and death in the American Civil War. Bierce served as a Union soldier, and his war stories carry the authority of lived experience sharpened by irony, psychological intensity, and a refusal to sentimentalise courage or sacrifice. In these tales, battle is not presented as pageantry or patriotic romance, but as confusion, fear, absurdity, cruelty, and sudden revelation.
Bierce's Civil War fiction includes some of the most powerful short stories in American literature, combining battlefield realism with the eerie compression and moral shock that made him one of the great masters of the short form. His work helped shape the modern war story by stripping away heroic convention and exposing the inner violence of combat, command, memory, and survival. This edition will interest readers of American Civil War fiction, classic American literature, short stories, psychological war fiction, military fiction, and nineteenth-century literary realism.
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