History of War

It’s a new week and a new book. This Republic of Suffering, by Drew Galpin Faust. It’s a fascinating book that may reveal more about the Civil War than you ever wanted to know. Such as; using a percentage of the population as the basis for understanding the ferocity of this terrible war; the 620,000 soldiers that lost their lives by the end of that war would translate to 6 million soldiers today. Terrible.