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Book SynopsisCovers the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and the Gulf Wars. This anthology presents four centuries of American men and women-soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians-writing about war. It covers the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnamese-American War.
Trade ReviewThese fascinating poems... put into sharp relief America's complex, conflicted, and evolving attitudes toward war. Ploughshares A sterling collection of verse from the colonial wars to today. VVA Veteran Original and significant. readysteadybook.com [American War Poetry] offers the works of nearly 200 of America's greatest poets. Library Journal This unique, remarkable anthology of war poetry embraces every major conflict of the US... Essential. Choice American War Poetry is an essential anthology for these times, as well as one that will hold up well long after. -- Kathleen Rooney Harvard Review
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments The Colonial Wars, 1746-1763 The Revolutionary War, 1776-1783 The War of 1812 The Alamo and the Mexican-American War, 1836 and 1846-1848 The Civil War, 1861-1865 The Indian Wars, 1620-1911 The Spanish-American War, 1898 The War of the Philippines, 1899-1902 World War I, 1917-1918 The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 World War II, 1941-1945 The Korean War, 1950-1953 The Vietnam War, 1964-1975 El Salvador, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf Biographies in Brief Index of Poems and Poem Titles Permissions
