I don't have any books to add to an otherwise excellent list, just an observation, and I apologize beforehand for any thread drift. But I'm curious... Do those WAB members not living in the U.S. shake their heads and wonder what all the fuss is about over a 150 year old civil war that never really exited the borders of this nation? Americans are obsessed with this war. Every unit, every officer, every move, every decision has been recorded, analyzed, and debated ever since the war itself, in unending detail.
The U.S. Civil War truly tore this country apart, but that alone doesn't explain the volume of literature, the debate, and the fact that there are still hard feelings, especially in certain rural areas of the South; these feelings having been handed down in a generational manner.
So do non-Americans wonder "why the huge fuss? Let it go." And the obvious question, "Why are we Americans obsessed with this war?"
The U.S. Civil War truly tore this country apart, but that alone doesn't explain the volume of literature, the debate, and the fact that there are still hard feelings, especially in certain rural areas of the South; these feelings having been handed down in a generational manner.
So do non-Americans wonder "why the huge fuss? Let it go." And the obvious question, "Why are we Americans obsessed with this war?"
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