Running the race, Wills, Brian Steel

Автор: Wills Brian Steel
Название: The River Was Dyed with Blood
ISBN: 080614453X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806144535
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The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, long recognized as a formidable warrior, has been shaped by one infamous wartime incident. At Fort Pillow in 1864, the attack by Confederate forces under Forrest's command left many of the Tennessee Unionists and black soldiers garrisoned there dead in a confrontation widely labeled as a -massacre.- In The River Was Dyed with Blood, best-selling Forrest biographer Brian Steel Wills argues that although atrocities did occur after the fall of the fort, Forrest did not order or intend a systematic execution of its defenders. Rather, the general's great failing was losing control of his troops.

A prewar slave trader and owner, Forrest was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime. Because the attack on Fort Pillow--which, as Forrest wrote, left the nearby waters -dyed with blood---occurred in an election year, Republicans used him as a convenient Confederate scapegoat to marshal support for the war. After the war he also became closely associated with the spread of the Ku Klux Klan. Consequently, the man himself, and the truth about Fort Pillow, has remained buried beneath myths, legends, popular depictions, and disputes about the events themselves.

Wills sets what took place at Fort Pillow in the context of other wartime excesses from the American Revolution to World War II and Vietnam, as well as the cultural transformations brought on by the Civil War. Confederates viewed black Union soldiers as the embodiment of slave rebellion and reacted accordingly. Nevertheless, Wills concludes that the engagement was neither a massacre carried out deliberately by Forrest, as charged by a congressional committee, nor solely a northern fabrication meant to discredit him and the Confederate States of America, as pro-Southern apologists have suggested. The battle-scarred fighter with his homespun aphorisms was neither an infallible warrior nor a heartless butcher, but a product of his time and his heritage.

Автор: Bendis, Brian Michael
Название: Man Of Steel, The
ISBN: 1401291732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781401291730
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Genre-defining author Brian Michael Bendis makes his triumphant debut at DC Comics, as a new evil comes to Earth looking for Superman to finish the mission he started long ago: exterminating the Kryptonian plague!

Автор: Wills Brian Steel
Название: Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema
ISBN: 0742545261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780742545267
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain, Hollywood has used the Civil War to create compelling cinema with each generation resolving the tug of war between entertainment value and historical accuracy differently. Wills looks at the portrayal of the war in film, explores their ...

Автор: Wills, Brian Steel
Название: Civil war monuments and memory
ISBN: 1611216338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611216332
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Описание: This collection of essays explores some of the ways people monumented and memorialized the war - and how those markers have impacted our understanding of it.

Автор: Bendis Brian Michael
Название: The Man of Steel
ISBN: 1401283489 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781401283483
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Genre-defining author Brian Michael Bendis makes his triumphant debut at DC Comics, as an alien being comes to Earth to kill Superman and finish the mission he first started decades ago: destroying the planet Krypton and killing every last Kryptonian One of the genre's greatest mythologies is turned on its head in Man of Steel

A new era begins for Superman as a threat name Rogol Zaar comes to Earth to put an end to Superman and his cousin, Supergirl. How will the Last Son and Daughter of Krypton survive a threat that destroyed almost all of their kind? As his world comes down around him, Clark Kent must also wonder: what happened to his wife and son, Lois Lane and Superboy?

Brian Michael Bendis, the scribe behind some of the greatest comics of all time, including Ultimate Spider-Man, New Avengers and Daredevil, dives headlong into the DC Universe in this precursor to his debuts on both Superman and Action Comics. Featuring stunning art by some of comics greatist artists including Ivan Reis, Evan "Doc" Shaner, Ryan Sook, Kevin Maguire, Adam Hughes, and Jason Fabok.

Collects issues #1-6 and stories from DC Nation #0.