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    612-822-4611

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My diary North and South

My diary North and South

Howard Russell, William

Paperback

Political Biographies20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 935360866X
ISBN13: 9789353608668
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 15 2019
Pages: 628
Weight: 1.73
Height: 1.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A foreign reporter steps onto American soil as the Union cracks and the South prepares to secede. With the trained eye of a war correspondent and the candour of a private journal, William Howard Russell records what he sees, hears, and senses on both sides of the line. History here feels shockingly close. In this civil war diary, kept as he travelled through the American North and South, Russell captures crowds and quiet rooms, anxieties and bravado, an intimate American civil war travelogue from a British observer in America. Written before hindsight and legend had settled over the United States civil war era, My Diary North and South offers rare Union and Confederacy perspectives in real time. Russell notes the language of honour and rights, the everyday presence of slavery, the rhetoric of patriotism, and the deep American north-south divide that made conflict seem at once impossible and inevitable. Long regarded as an essential civil war primary source and a classic British war correspondent diary, it speaks as clearly to civil war students and American history buffs as to general readers of travel and reportage. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For anyone interested in American civil war history or in the craft of eyewitness reporting, the William Howard Russell diary stands as both a vivid narrative and a cultural treasure.

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