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32 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Primary Document Finally Available,
By jkibler (Maybinton, South Carolina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia (Hardcover)
This eye-witness account of US troop atrocities on civilians can no longer be hidden. Scholars may have had an excuse for ignoring it, but now that excuse is removed by this easily available, beautifully produced university press edition. The majority of the so-called historians who have attributed the burning of Columbia SC to accident, alcohol, burning cotton, etc., are now shown to be the apologist propagandists for a sanitized American history that they most surely are. In contrast to the eye-witness account, their work now appears laughable. How can we take these "historians" seriously in anything else they do? Truth has a way of getting outside its bottle, and like the genie, it can't be put back. Congratulations to the editor and press for a job well done.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent read,
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This review is from: A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia (Hardcover)
This is an excellent historical recount of a much mis-represented disaster placed upon a civilian population by an invading army. An easy to read, compelling recorded observation of the events as they happened.
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A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia by William Gilmore Simms (Hardcover - Oct. 2005)
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