The Life and Times of a Civil War Reenactor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life and Times of a Civil War Reenactor write by Clifford Pierce. This book was released on 2008. The Life and Times of a Civil War Reenactor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After retiring from a career with the U.S. military, Pierce obtains a doctorate in theology and is ordained. He has found his calling in ministering to the spiritual needs of the Civil War reenacting community in his portrayal of Samuel Harrison, chaplain of the 54th Massachusetts volunteer infantry.
Battlefields of Honor
Battlefields of Honor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battlefields of Honor write by Jeannine Stein. This book was released on 2012. Battlefields of Honor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Battlefields of Honor follows modern-day reenactors as they re-create battles, camp life and the day-to-day existence of soldiers and civilians from the American Civil War (1861-65).
Confederates in the Attic
Confederates in the Attic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confederates in the Attic write by Tony Horwitz. This book was released on 2010-08-18. Confederates in the Attic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans of history resurrect the ghosts of the Lost Cause through ritual and remembrance. "The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. This splendid commemoration of the war and its legacy ... is an eyes–open, humorously no–nonsense survey of complicated Americans." —The New York Times Book Review For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War—reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more—this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of 'hardcore' reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flag; at Andersonville, he finds that the prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the 'Civil Wargasm.' Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and the new 'classrooms, courts, country bars' where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways.
War Games
War Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War Games write by Jenny Thompson. This book was released on 2014-05-27. War Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. D-Day with beach umbrellas in the distance? Troops ordering ice cream? American and German forces celebrating Christmas together in the barracks? This could only be the curious world of 20th-century war reenactors. A relatively recent and rapidly expanding phenomenon, reenactments in the United States of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War now draw more than 8,000 participants a year. Mostly men, these reenactors celebrate, remember, and re-create the tiniest details of the Battle of the Bulge in the Maryland Woods, D-Day on a beach in Virginia, and WWI trench warfare in Pennsylvania. Jenny Thompson draws on seven years of fieldwork, personal interviews, and surveys to look into this growing subculture. She looks at how the reenactors' near obsession with owning “authentic” military clothing, guns, paraphernalia, and vehicles often explodes into heated debates. War Games sheds light on the ways people actually make use of history in their daily lives and looks intensely into the meaning of war itself and how wars have become the heart of American history. The author's photographs provide incredible evidence of how “real” these battles can become.
From FARB to PARD
From FARB to PARD - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From FARB to PARD write by Kip Grunska. This book was released on 2003. From FARB to PARD available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
