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Victims: True Story Civil War Second Edition
Author(s): Phillip Shaw Paludan (Author)
- Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 1981
- Edition: Second
- Language: English
- Print length: 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 0870493167
- ISBN-13: 9780870493164
Book Description
“. . . the definitive history of the Shelton Laurel Massacre, but more important it is a pathbreaking study of a principal theater of the guerrilla aspect of the Civil War. Paludan has succeeded admirably in rooting a historically neglected topic in the lives of ordinary people.”—Frank L. Byrne, American Historical Review
“The questions Paludan asks about Shelton Laurel in 1863 are appropriate to My Lai in 1968 and Auschwitz in 1944. Victims is not only a good book; it is also an important book. And it is a profoundly disturbing book.”—Emory M. Thomas, Georgia Historical Quarterly
“Outwardly a superb analysis of the impact of war and war-time atrocity on the life of a remote mountain community, this slim volume harbors far-reaching implications for the study of class conflict and the modernization process in the Appalachian region.”—Ron Eller, Appalachian Journal
