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The Photographic History Of The Civil War (Volume VII) Prisons And Hospitals

The Photographic History Of The Civil War (Volume VII) Prisons And Hospitals

Thompson, Holland

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354481566
ISBN13: 9789354481567
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.73 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Behind the battle lines lay another Civil War entirely: silent wards, crowded stockades, lives balanced on a surgeon's knife. These images do not flinch. In The Photographic History Of The Civil War (Volume VII): Prisons And Hospitals, Holland Thompson focuses on the hidden front of the American Civil War 1861-1865: the union and confederate prisons, the makeshift hospitals, and the evolving practices of Civil War medical care. Period photographs, closely linked to the world of Mathew Brady civil war photographs, are set alongside clear, measured narrative to form a definitive photographic civil war history of captivity, suffering, and survival. As a civil war photo book and pictorial history Civil War scholars still consult, it traces civil war prisons illustrated in stark detail and unfolds a sober civil war hospitals history, capturing doctors, nurses, inmates, and convalescents in unguarded moments. 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. Essential as a civil war researchers reference and an engaging resource for civil war students, it speaks to anyone drawn to serious, image-rich history, including admirers of the Ken Burns Civil War documentary seeking the primary visual record behind the storytelling. More than an account of institutions, it is a humane, unvarnished portrait in photographs and prose of how a divided nation treated its wounded, its captured, and its most vulnerable.

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