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WAR COMES AGAIN GETTYSBURG CIVIL WAR INSTITUTE BOOKS published by Oxford University Press Edited by Gabor Boritt Why the Confederacy Lost Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures Lincoln's Generals War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II Other books by Gabor Boritt Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream The Lincoln Image (with Harold Holzer and Mark E. Neely, Jr.) The Confederate Image (with Mark E. Neely, Jr., and Harold Holzer) The Historian's Lincoln The Historian's Lincoln, Rebuttals: What the University Press Would Not Print By late June it is usually warm, even hot in Gettysburg. In the night at our farm, the fireflies glow in the dark, fleeting specks illuminating the woods and turning Marsh Creek into a pageant. In the daytime along the side of the road, orange tiger lilies proclaim their eternal message. My heart overflows; it is time to see old friends again, time to make new ones. It is the time for the Gettysburg Civil War Institute. Gabor S. Boritt WAR Comparative Vistas on the Edited by GABOR BORITT Preface by DAVID EISENHOWER COMES AGAIN Civil War and World War II Essays by Stephen E. Ambrose Michael C. C. Adams Ira Berlin Robert V. Bruce D'Ann Campbell and Richard Jensen Don E. Fehrenbacher Howard Jones Gerald F. Linderman Peter Maslowski Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Russell F. Weigley New York • Oxford Oxford University Press • 1995 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bombay Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karache Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1995 by Gabor S. Boritt Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data War comes again : comparative vistas on the Civil War and World War II/ edited by Gabor Boritt; preface by David Eisenhower ; essays by Stephen £. Ambrose . . . [et al.]. p. cm. "Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books published by Oxford University Press"—P. ii. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-19-508845-X 1. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865. 2. World War, 1939-1945—United States. I. Boritt, G. S., 1940- . II. Ambrose, Stephen E. HI. Tide: Gettysburg lectures published by Oxford University Press. E649.W23 1995 973.7—dc20 94-36511 123456789 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper DEDICATED TO THE AMERICANS OLDIER OF WORLD WAR TWO This page intentionally left blank Preface It is very good to return to Gettysburg and the Civil War Institute that has grown to national fame since its founding barely more than a decade ago. I have spoken in some forty-two states over the last few years, and the happy news about the CWI and its director, Gabor Boritt, is everywhere. I last spoke here on the 125th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, in 1988, on "Dwight D. Eisenhower's Civil War." A good deal has changed since then. Most important for our purposes, World War II has become a true historical subject. The war's sad continuation symbolized by the Berlin Wall is gone, and the war's memory reached the mature age of fifty, the span of two generations. We can now look at the Second World War dispassionately, and so we can, at last, compare it with authority to that other earth-shattering American experience, the Civil War. Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the subjects of this book, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, began to make such comparisons soon after moving to Gettysburg in the 1950s, if not sooner. Indeed as I look back upon my teenage years in Gettysburg, I feel that perhaps my grandfather spoke to me continuously about the Civil War and World War II—though rarely about the later war directly. I think that when he talked about the Civil War, he was in fact often reflecting on his

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The Civil War and the World War II stand as the two great cataclysms of American history. They were our two costliest wars, with well over a million casualties suffered in each. And they were transforming moments in our history as well, times when the life of the nation and the great experiment in d
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