- A unique look at how a thousand years of military history are remembered in popular culture, through images ranging from the medieval knight to the horror of U.S. involvement in the My Lai massacre.
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- reviews:
"Adams is a fine, spirited writer whose thoughtful book demythologizes the military mindset in American popular culture. He exposes the selectivity of history memory, showing how each generation imposes its own moral judgment on military encounters. We ultimately learn a great deal about American's inseparable obsessions: trying to explain violence while endlessly yearning for peace." -- Andrew Burstein

- "Refutes the idea that Americans do not appreciate history by pointing to reenactors, museums, television programs, and movies, among other things." -- Choice

- "Professor Adams' unique and brilliant study shows us how a key military event in a war -- Pickett's charge, for instance -- is transformed by the various popular culture media into an ideal image of war itself. Ironically, defeat -- the Alamo, the Charge of the Light Brigade, Custer's Last Stand -- casts the most powerful, lingering spell. Adams is an historian not of battlefield strategy but of the public consciousness with which a people go to battle." -- David Madden

- "Adams helps us understand why the public is irresistibly drawn to the subject of warfare, and in this sophisticated treatment of popular culture, he reminds us that military history offers meaningful interpretive opportunities to explore larger social and political issues." -- Public Historian