Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I Local History At the end of the

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Of the many ways the Great War divided the past from the future

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Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I Local History At the end of theDescription By David J. Silbey and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai Paperback Although the Civil War and the Great War were fought only fifty years apart, the perceived time between these two cataclysmic events seems far longer in popular American memory: the Civil War was the centerpiece of the nineteenth century and lies deep in Americas past whereas World War I was a modern prelude to World War II, a conflict still in living memory. Wars Civil and Great