Casualties Books
Inglorious passages
Of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the Civil War, two-thirds, by some estimates, were felled by disease; untold others were lost to accidents, murder, suicide, sunstroke, and drow...
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Fragging
By George Lepre
"Examines the over 500 instances of 'fragging'--the use of fragmentation hand grenades by enlisted men to murder their own officers--that occurred during the Vietnam War. Uses archival evidence and...
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Before my helpless sight
Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scarred the twentieth century, the horrors of the Western Front continue to exercise a particularly strong hold on the modern imagination. The unpreceden...
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