The Red badge of courage / ..and selected Pros and Poetry Stephen Crane, edited with an introduction by William M. Gibson - New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1965 - 238 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

As a detachment of Union soldiers prepares for their first Civil War battle, a young private worries about his ability to endure the horrors of the battlefield. By contrast, his fellow soldiers seem fearless. During the first action he flees in panic, only to recover and fight bravely.

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War--Psychological aspects--fiction
Desertion, Military--fiction
Courage--fiction
Fear--fiction


United States--History--fiction--Civil War, 1861-1865

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