{"product_id":"civil-war-fact-amp-fiction","title":"Civil War Fact Amp Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of Robert Adair’s cult classic The Physics of Baseball, here is a book that tackles the long-cherished myths of Civil War history—and ultimately shatters them, based on physics and mathematics. At what range was a Civil War sniper lethal? Did bullets ever “rain like hail”? Could one ever step across a battlefield by stepping only on bodies and never hard ground? How effective were Civil War muskets and rifles? How accurate are photographs and paintings?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this genre-bending work of history, Scott Hippensteel puts the tropes of Civil War history under the microscope and says, “Wait a minute!” Combining science and history, Hippensteel reexamines much that we hold dear about the Civil War and convincingly argues that memoirs and histories have gotten it wrong. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a work of history and science for our era of “fake news”—and for well beyond. Readers will never look at the Civil War the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315584967038,"sku":"NW9780811739979","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780811739979.jpg?v=1778716597","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/civil-war-fact-amp-fiction","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}