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Book Review

Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory. By Neil Longley York. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2001. xviii, 179 pp. Cloth, $28.00, ISBN 0-87338-685-X. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-87338-688-4.)

This well-designed and nimble all-terrain vehicle traverses treacherous landscapes pocked with jumbled, murky, and shifting understandings and inklings that ooze and bubble somewhere between fiction and historical fact, between amorphous popular notions and precise professional histories, and between shrieking exigencies and the coy past. The vehicle's journey enlightens, entertains, and provokes. . . .

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