The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
By: compiled with a foreword by Ernest Jerome Hopkins.
Contributors: Hopkins, Ernest Jerome, 1887-1973.
Edition: 1st Bison printing
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Lincoln, NE
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9780803260870
Copyright date: 1970
Subjects: War stories, American.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Description: In The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined "war" as "a by-product of the arts of peace." A Civil War veteran, Bierce had absolutely no illusions about "courage," "honor," and "glory" on the battlefield. These stories form one of the great antiwar statements in American literature. Included here are the classic An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Chickamauga, The Mocking Bird, The Coup de Grâce, Parker Anderson, Philosopher, and other stories celebrated for their intensity, startling insight, and mastery of form.
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Notes: "A Bison book."
Table of contents: title: One of the missing --; title: A baffled ambuscade --; title: The affair at Coulter's Notch --; title: A son of the gods --; title: One kind of officer --; title: A tough tussle --; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge --; title: Chickamauga --; title: The coup de grâce --; title: One officer, one man --; title: The story of a conscience --; title: Parker Adderson, philosopher --; title: An affair of outposts --; title: Jupiter Doke, brigadier-general --; title: A horseman in the sky --; title: The mocking-bird --; title: George Thurston --; title: Killed at Resaca --; title: Three and one are one --; title: Two military executions --; title: The major's tale --; title: A resumed identity --; title: A man with two lives --; title: The other lodgers --; title: A bivouac of the dead