War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 0812253043
- ISBN-13
- 9780812253047
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-05-28
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Authors
- Edward J. Blum, John H. Matsui
Description
"An examination of how Americans brought concepts of the devil, demons, and hell into every fabric of their lives and times in the American Civil War. These influences continued to impact the nation and its people after the war"--
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- 2021-05-28
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- 2004
- 240 pages
- Paperback
- Cumberland House Publishing
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