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Title: Blood : Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War by Peter Kadzis, Colleen Delaney, Grover Gardner, Christopher Graybill, Barrett Whitener, Delores King Williams ISBN: 1-885408-65-X Publisher: Listen & Live Audio Pub. Date: July, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Much Adrenaline Needed On This One
Comment: This review is going to be heavily shaded by the fact that the book turned out to be nothing like what the title, dust jacket and series name implied. My impressions of what I was going to get with the book was down and dirty hard core descriptions of fighting. Real meaty descriptions that would really provide me an insight to what it was like in the thick of the battle. What were the Calvary charges like, what were the conditions in the POW camps, what was the battle field medical care like, almost an Ambrose on the Civil War. If this book tried to document what I just described then the editor must be found and prevented from ever committing this kind of crime again. I will give the editor some credit and think that maybe the Marketing department got a little ahead of themselves in describing this book as the "Saving Private Ryan" of Civil War books.
The book was made up of an assortment of chapters from many different authors. Some of the authors are historians and some are historical figures. The chapters were not in and of themselves that bad, it was just that it seams that they were the sale items of the literary world. They just did not flow together that well, were not particularly well written or exciting and covered far more issues then just combat. There were even some fictionalized accounts, did the editor forget this was a non-fiction book? There are no twos ways about it, I was disappointed in the book from about page 5 on. I am going to cut it a little slack in my rating just because I do not read a lot on the Civil War thus do not know how this book stacks up with others.
Rating: 3
Summary: Sort of a mixed bag
Comment: I think this would have been a better anthology if the editor had spent more time finding sources. It doesn't really seem like he searched lesser-known documents; just about everything here is pretty well known. The quality ranges from excellent to somewhat pointless.
Rating: 4
Summary: A very useful series of interesting primary sources.
Comment: I purchased this book without having any firsthand knowledge of it as a background source and I haven't been minutely disappointed. Kadzis assembled both primary and secondary sources either from the time of the Civil War or from more modern secondary source writings about aspects of that war. In any case the extracts were singularly well chosen and are valuable for my purposes. I would recommend Kadzis' compilation to any person searching for a single source of Civil War rememberances written at the time or of modern fiction writers using the events of that war around which to build their longer story. The writings he has selected are very useful and interesting.
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Title: Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals by Nate Hardcastle, Clint Willis ISBN: 1560253673 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea by Clint Willis ISBN: 1560251743 Publisher: Adrenaline Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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