Page Catastrophe (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. ometimes when the human race has gone through one of it colossal chapters of experience, men in the aftermath have been so appalled by the catastrophe, so obsessed by the memory of it, that they have gone back to the story again and again, finding new ang (illustrator). Large Size Book, 1,038 pages.Volume V: The British historian, Herbert Butterfield, has written: "Sometimes when the human race has gone through one of it colossal chapters of experience, men in the aftermath have been so appalled by the catastrophe, so obsessed by the memory of it, that they have gone back to the story again and again, finding new angles of research, new aspects of the matter to reflect upon, as one generation succeeds another- a process of thinking and re-thinking, which in special cases is capable of continuing for a thousand years and more." Butterfield is referring specifically to the fall of Rome, but the passage is equally applicable to the American Civil War, called, at least initially in the North, the War of Rebellion and, in the South, the War between the States. No historian dare approach this episode in our history without a profound degree of awe and even apprehension. It is an event so tragic and so terrible that it was and remains on one level- the level of human suffering and anguish- quite incomprehensible.

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