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

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780811739979
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 264
  • Udgivet:
  • 15. November 2021
  • Størrelse:
  • 237x159x22 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 492 g.
  • 4-7 hverdage.
  • 25. Juni 2024
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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.

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