My Enemy, My Brother
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670498611 (0670498610)
ASIN: 670498610
Publish date: April 29th 1977
Publisher: Viking Books
Pages no: 252
Edition language: English
Although the author specifies that the fictional elements "make up less than ten percent of the whole book" they are a very distracting ten percent. If I wanted a fictional account to make me feel like a witness to the battle of Gettysburg, I would just re-read The Killer Angels. Since the author'...
One of the dilemmas faced by a reader intrigued by the history of conflict is that often the horror experienced by the average soldier gets lost in the strategic grandeur of a movement and its politics. Joseph Persico, a well-known biographer, has provided us with an unusual glimpse of the Gettysbur...