The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery

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Fascination with Failure Lost wars inform collective memory Why is defeat often more interesting than victory? Why is tragedy sometimes more compelling to the historical imagination than success by arms or economic prowess? Why or how does failed heroism, when fashioned into th....

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Published in: Civil War Book Review

Volume 6, Issue 1

DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.6.1.6

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The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery

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