The smell of battle, the taste of siege [electronic resource] : a sensory history of the Civil War / Mark M. Smith.

"Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Sieg...

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