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Book Title
A Strange and Blighted Land
Title
A Strange and Blighted Land
Subtitle
Gettysburg: the Aftermath of a Battle
ISBN-10
161121405X
EAN
9781611214055
ISBN
9781611214055
Genre
History
Topic
Military History
Release Date
09/11/2017
Release Year
2017
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Length
152mm
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: the Aftermath of a Battle
Item Height
229mm
Author
Gregory Coco
Publisher
Savas Beatie
Item Width
152mm
Subject
History
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) was the largest battle fought on the American continent. Remarkably few who study it contemplate what came after the armies marched away. Who would care for the tens of thousands of wounded? What happened to the thousands of dead men, horses, and tons of detritus scattered in every direction? How did the civilians cope with their radically changed lives? Gregory Coco's A Strange and Blighted Land. Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle offers a comprehensive account of these and other issues. The late Coco was a park ranger at Gettysburg deeply interested in the battle and what was left in its wake. The Vietnam veteran who wrote well and often about the battle waxes eloquently about the carnage of war, its terrors and pain, its irreplaceable cost in human life and treasure, and the toll it took on the families who lost sons and husbands there. Arranged in a series of topical chapters, A Strange and Blighted Land begins with a tour of the battlefield, mostly through eyewitness accounts, of the death and destruction littering the sprawling landscape. Once the size and scope is exposed to readers, Coco moves on to discuss the dead of Gettysburg, North and South, how their remains were handled, and how and why the Gettysburg National Cemetery was established. The treatment of the wounded, Union and Confederate, was organized chaos. Every house and barn became of hospital or medical station, and the medical and surgical practices of the day were little short of compassionate torture. The author also discusses at length how prisoners were handled and the fate of the thousands of stragglers and deserters left behind once the armies left before concluding with the preservation efforts that culminated in the establishment of the Gettysburg National Military Park in 1895. Coco's prose is gripping, personal, and brutally honest. There is no mistaking where he comes down on the issue: There was nothing pretty or glorious or romantic about a battle-especially once the fighting ended.

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Savas Beatie
ISBN-13
9781611214055
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Author
Gregory Coco
Publication Name
A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: the Aftermath of a Battle
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm

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Gregory Coco
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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