Soldiers called it one of the “waste places of nature†and “a region of gloomâ€â€”the Wilderness of Virginia; seventy square miles of dense; second-growth forest known as “the dark; close wood.â€â€œA more unpromising theatre of war was never seen;†said another.Yet here; in the spring of 1864; the Civil War escalated to a new level of horror.Ulysses S. Grant; commanding all Federal armies; opened the campaign with a vow to never turn back. Robert E. Lee; commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia; moved into the Wilderness to block Grant’s advance. Immovable object intercepted irresistible force—and the Wilderness burst into flame.With the forest itself burning around them; men died by the thousands. The armies bloodied each other without mercy and; at times; without any semblance of order. The brush grew so dense; and the smoke hung so thick; men could not see who stood next to them—or in front of them. “This; viewed as a battleground; was simply infernal;†a Union soldier later said.It was; said another; “hell itself.â€Driven by desperation; duty; confusion; and fire; soldiers on both sides marveled that anyone might make it out alive.For more than a decade; Chris Mackowski has guided visitors across the battlefields of the Overland Campaign. Now in Hell Itself he invites readers of the Emerging Civil War Series to join him in the Wilderness—one of the most storied battlefields of the entire Civil War.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. So very trueBy Kindle Customer martyGreat read could not put it down. Very well written. Brings back not so fond memories. As a 3rd generation newspaper person I can relate . I worked in advertising. Finally as a sales rep;my pay was based on salary plus commission I made pretty good money almost 8 x as much after getting out of the hourly ad paste up composing room female ghetto. My women friends who were reporters in the 1980's were shocked at how much more money I made than them. One thing about sales how much you sell is how much you make.At that time salaries were so hush hush management didn't want anyone to know how much people were paid. If I were you starting out I would ask for 1.5 Times more than offered because then you'll get paid the same as a man. The phrase that stuck in my head even after the women were promoted that they were offered so much less than a man in the same position.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Much better and more real than the TV miniseries; which I greatly enjoyed.By jackieQuick read; great tie in with history of Newsweek and the current (or at least 2009) climate. Sad that sexism is still with us but also validating that it isn't all in my head. I appreciated the reference to Susan Brownmiller's In Our Time; which I'm reading now. Much better and more real than the TV miniseries; which I greatly enjoyed. Shows how long; slogging; and painfully slow the march to make life better actually is. The women who filed the complaint nearly all didn't benefit from it or didn't benefit much. But they changed the hearts and minds of a nation and shook up boardrooms across the world. My life is better because of what they did. I still feel the sting of sexism every day. But not nearly as badly thanks to the brave women of Newsweek and countless others. Thank you Lynn Povich!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Well worth the readBy Ellen KompFormer Newsweek staffer Lynn Povich tells the story of the 1970 lawsuit filed by 46 women who were denied the chance to write under their own bylines at the magazine as part of a company-wide policy. The suit was filed by Eleanor Holmes Norton; the former ACLU lawyer who currently serves as the Congressional representative from DC. Eleanor Clift; who rose from "Gal Friday" at the Atlanta bureau to Newsweek's White House correspondent; writes; "I owe my career to the women who put themselves on the line to right wrongs embedded in our collective psyches about the roles of women and men." Two months after the Newsweek complaint was filed; 96 women from Time Inc. filed a similar suit; and in the next few years; women at Reader's Digest; Newsday; the Washington Post; the Detroit News; the Baltimore Sun and the Associated Press did the same; Povich reports. In 1974 six women at the New York Times filed sexual discrimination charges on behalf of 550 women there; and in 1975; sixteen women at NBC initiated a class action lawsuit covering 2600 past and present employees. I'd been completely unaware of this important chapter in women's history until I looked up this book after seeing the series Good Girls Revolt on Netflix.
