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Book Review of The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage
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There's a reason this book is a classic: it vividly brings to life an incredibly important event in American history. For this first time in history (it was published in 1895), an author portrayed war in a decidedly unromantic way. War is hell.