"This volume explores the tension between mass death and individual loss by linking long-term patterns of mourning, burial, and grief with the short-term catacl

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil

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With the removal of death from the public sphere, mourning has become a private matter. At the same time, particularly in poetry, the trend is reversed. An inte

Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities who have t