Myths of the Civil War (eBook)

The Fact, Fiction, and Science behind the Civil War's Most-Told Stories

Scott Hippensteel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
264 Seiten
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-6982-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In the spirit of Robert Adair's cult classic The Physics of Baseball, here is a book that tackles the long-cherished myths of Civil War historyand ultimately shatters them, based on physics and mathematics. At what range was a Civil War sniper lethal? Did bullets ever ';rain like hail'? Could one ever step across a battlefield by stepping only on bodies and never hard ground? How effective were Civil War muskets and rifles? How accurate are photographs and paintings?In this genre-bending work of history, Scott Hippensteel puts the tropes of Civil War history under the microscope and says, ';Wait a minute!' Combining science and history, Hippensteel reexamines much that we hold dear about the Civil War and convincingly argues that memoirs and histories have gotten it wrong. This is a work of history and science for our era of ';fake news'and for well beyond. Readers will never look at the Civil War the same way again.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 75 Illustrations including: - 12 Black & White Illustrations; - 47 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 16 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: American Civil War • Civil War’s Most-Told Stories • history myths • myth busting • myths of the civil war • Science and History • Scott Hippensteel
• ISBN-10: 0-8117-6982-8 / 0811769828
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8117-6982-2 / 9780811769822