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The Red Badge of CourageOn the coverThe Veteran in a New Field, Winslow Homer, 1865
The Red Badge of Courage
A raw young Union soldier marches into his first Civil War battle dreaming of glory, flees in terror, and struggles to understand courage, shame, and manhood amid the smoke. A revolutionary, intensely inward war novel.
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The book that invented the modern war novel, a fever-dream of fear and courage told entirely from inside one frightened soldier’s head. Short, intense, startlingly ahead of its time.
SettingThe American Civil War
A battlefield of the American Civil War, rendered not as history or heroism but as the churning, terrifying experience of a single ordinary man.