My Enemy, My Brother

[Karen Lips]

My Enemy, My Brother: Men and Days of Gettsyburg by Joseph E. Persico. I have just stated to read this book, but I a wonder how accurate it is
It reads more like fiction based on actual events. Does anybody have an opinion?

 

[Vareb]

My Enemy, My Brother: Men and Days of Gettsyburg by Joseph E. Persico. I have just stated to read this book, but I a wonder how accurate it is
It reads more like fiction based on actual events. Does anybody have an opinion?

Does it have end notes?

 

[Karen Lips]

It has a bibliography in the back.

 

[blue_zouave]

I'll have to see if my local library has it. It sounds like that strange chimera called "creative nonfiction." I may be old-fashioned, but I want my history to read like history, without dialog and stream of consciousness, unless such dialog is documted in primary source.

Zou

 

[Karen Lips]

Blue Zouve,

From what I have read of it, I think it is creatvie nonfiction. It was published in 1977. I agree with you. I like history to be accurate.

 

[diddyriddick]

I'm not familiar w/ this book, but did read Persico's Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial. Thought it was well written and entertaining. Don't remember about sources, though.

 

[TxSouthpaw]

He also wrote a bio of former CIA direcor William Casey. Have it but have not read it. Will check it for sources.

 

[Karen Lips]

What really put me off to the book was the use of the F word by civil war soldiers. Of all the diaries and journals I have read of civil war soldiers, both North and South, I never read the F word being used!

 

[ole]

Its use was quite common, Karen, it just wasn't committed to writing.

I suspect that it's meaning was considerably more literal then than it is now; i.e., it was primarily a verb or a noun in the gerund sense.

Just a thought.

Ole

 

[larry_cockerham]

Its use was quite common, Karen, it just wasn't committed to writing.

I suspect that it's meaning was considerably more literal then than it is now; i.e., it was primarily a verb or a noun in the gerund sense.

Just a thought.

Ole

I hope that wasn't an eye witness account. You ain't THAT old. I don't recall seeing it in any records, either, fortunately. There must have been other verbs and maybe even that one. I don't know. After learning about factory ladies, I'm afraid to dig deeper.

 

[unionblue]

Karen,

I have seen the 'F' word in some Civil War letters, especially a set a friend of mine has concerning a Union soldier writting home to a friend about some 'loose' girls he had experiences with.

Could have been a case of a soldier bragging, but I got the distinct impression this was not the case.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

 

[Karen Lips]

UnionBlue,

Well, that is interesting.Thanks for sharing. But I still can't imagine Lincloln, Gen. Lee, Stonewall Jackson or Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, just to name a few, uttering the F word. On the other hand Gen. Hooker.....