The Bloody Ground - Bernard Cornwell

War is a morale sapping thing. The longer it goes on for the more likely people are going to become against it. This has happened in Iraq as people now realise that it might take more than a couple of weeks to sort out the region. The extension of war is not a new thing as any historian will tell you. Contemporaries of the period thought that WW1 would be over by Christmas – it was, just Christmas 4 years later. These extended wars have the habit of ripping countries apart and this is no better seen in a civil war. The American Civil War went on for longer than many thought and many people died, not for slavery, but for their pride filled ideals. The ‘Starbuck ...