Read by: John Michaels
Language: English
Length: 14 minutes
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Release date: 2012-04-17
"The Coup de Grâce" a short story by Ambrose Bierce, himself a troubled veteran of the American Civil War, details a fictional situation, which may be based on some truth. An act so humane and yet so repugnant it would not be spoken of. War is unglamorous and ugly.