Valley of the Shadow - Softcover

Peters, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765374056 ISBN 13: 9780765374059

Verlag: FORGE, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

<p>Winner of the 2015 Boyd Award for Literary Excellence in Military Fiction<br><i><br>New York Times</i> bestselling author Ralph Peters returns with <i>Valley of the Shadow</i>, the third installment in his Boyd Award-winning series on the Civil War<br><br>In the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood.<br><br>The summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the American Civil War, from a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, D.C., to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek—mighty battles now all but forgotten.<br> The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: Philip Sheridan, a Union general with an uncanny gift for inspiring soldiers, and Jubal Early, his Confederate counterpart, stubborn and deadly; George Armstrong Custer, and the brilliant, courageous John Brown Gordon.<br> Ralph Peters brings to life yesteryear’s giants and their breathtaking battles. Sharp as a bayonet and piercing as a bullet, <i>Valley of the Shadow</i> is a great novel of our grandest, most-tragic war.</p>

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RALPH PETERS, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Cain at Gettysburg</i> and <i>Hell or Richmond</i>, is a retired U.S. Army officer; a strategist and veteran of the intelligence world; a journalist who appears frequently in broadcast media; and a lifelong traveler with experience in over seventy countries on six continents. Combining years of walking Civil War fields and painstaking research with insight gleaned from his own military career, Ralph Peters tells great American tales in a masterful style.

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• Verlag: FORGE
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0765374056
• ISBN 13: 9780765374059
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
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