In Reply to: As 'The Civil War' is memorable and haunting so is 'The War' forgettable and hollow. NT posted by Tony D. on October 9, 2007 at 18:07:53:
Too bad "The Civil War" is faulty history. Generally IME the more someone knows about the War of the Rebellion the less they care for Burns' work.
I'm not talking nutbag neo-Con stuff either but things like Burns totally missing the importance of the western theater of the war. The importanr war wasn't between the New York and Virginia, it was between Illinois and Tennessee.
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Follow Ups
- RE: As 'The Civil War' is memorable and haunting....but pretty bad history - Tom Brennan 18:57:54 10/09/07 (3)
- It wasn't meant to be a blow-by-blow recounting - DWPC 14:23:58 10/10/07 (0)
- No doubt, but Burns caught the 'feel' of the Civil war IMO. - Tony D. 19:38:16 10/09/07 (1)
- RE: Agreed; Burns did pretty well with the Civil War - grinagog 21:25:28 10/09/07 (0)