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

di Scott Hippensteel (Autore)

Stackpole Books, 2022

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 history-and 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.

• Autore: Scott Hippensteel
• Editore: Stackpole Books
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 264 p.
• Dimensioni: 239 x 160 mm
• Peso: 490 gr.
• EAN: 9780811739979

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