You will perceive by this I am at least in the Confederate service…. Since I have been here I have had a severe sickness but am glad to say at present I am well though I fear my sickness would have incapacitated me for active service…. In all probability our regiment will be stationed here permanently for the winter to guard the bridge across the Watauga River…--Private John H. Phillips; Company E; 62nd Regiment NC Troops; Camp Carter; Tennessee; October 13; 1862. As with volume 1 (The Piedmont); this work presents letters and diary entries (and a few other documents) that tell the experiences of soldiers and civilians from the mountain counties of North Carolina during the Civil War. The counties included are Alleghany; Ashe; Buncombe; Burke; Caldwell; Cherokee; Clay; Haywood; Henderson; Jackson; McDowell; Macon; Madison; Mitchell; Polk; Rutherford; Surry; Transylvania; Watauga; Wilkes; and Yancey. The book is arranged chronologically; 1861 through 1865. Before each letter or diary entry; background information is provided about the writer.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Karen S. HansenExtremely robust in detail and the highest quality writing.35 of 42 people found the following review helpful. Very refreshing perspective on the Holocaust in PolandBy A CustomerIn my opinion; the main value of this book lies in its uncompromising debunking of the Holocaust propaganda which is so prevalent in many other treatments of this historical event. After reading Piotrowski's lucid; grounded in facts presentation; no sane person can believe in the "Polish complicity" in the Holocaust; or in the total innocence of the Polish Jewish minority. This book should be made required reading for the Holocaust studies everywhere in the world.6 of 10 people found the following review helpful. A Solid History of the Martyrdoms of Polish Jews and non-JewsBy Jan PeczkisThe following review is based on the original (1998) edition. There is so much content in this book that it is hard to decide what to discuss!Those readers who get upset that the word Holocaust can be expanded to non-Jewish victims should consider the following terms: Polonocaust or even Polocaust.One soon learns that members of ALL nationalities engaged in unsavory conduct in the face of the Nazi and Soviet oppressors. There are entire chapters on Jewish; Polish; Belorussian; Lithuanian; and Ukrainian collaboration. Prewar Polish-Jewish prejudices had been fully reciprocal (pp. 39-40).Piotrowski provides considerable detail on the Poles deported by the Soviets into the interior of the USSR. He presents evidence for the large-scale nature of the Zydokomuna (Jewish-Communist collaboration against Poles) before (pp. 36-38); during (pp. 48-58); and immediately after WWII (pp. 58-65).He addresses accusations; directed against the AK and NSZ; of having killed fugitive Jews. In some cases; it can be shown that these units weren't even in the areas at the time (p. 102). Other accusations aren't even nominally corroborated by knowledgeable Jews who were in the area at the time (p. 335). Piotrowski (p. 324) refutes Krakowski's argument that Bor-Komorowski's "anti-bandit" order had been a veiled order to kill fugitive Jews (p. 324). Finally; there were Jews serving openly in the ranks of the AK (including its elite; p. 335) and the NSZ (pp. 96-97).Significantly; Piotrowski shows that many Jewish recollections were written decades after the events. They have a tendency of mixing up their personal experiences with what they heard or read about the Holocaust (p. 328).Piotrowski includes TIME Magazine's 1994 "retraction" of its false Polonophobic statement that there had been many Poles in the SS (p. 321). He also presents intriguing evidence that the so-called Kielce Pogrom had been a Soviet-staged provocation (p. 141).This book requires much in-depth study to appreciate fully!
