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Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville : The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War

Door Winston Groom

Categorie
Verenigde Staten & Canada
Boeknummer
#376870-VA48
Titel
Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville : The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War
Auteur
Groom, Winston
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
New York, NY : Grove Press
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
0802140610
ISBN13
9780802140616
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, some illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump examines Confederate general John Bell Hood's fateful maneuvers in the final moments of the Civil War.
In Shrouds of Glory, acclaimed novelist and historian Winston Groom introduces readers to the courageous but reckless Hood, prematurely thrust into the spotlight by a combination of destiny and fate. Witness the unlikely rise of this young Confederate, who graduated forty-fourth out of a class of fifty-two at West Point, as he overcomes the nearly fatal amputation of his shattered leg and eventually devises a strategy to turn the tide of the war.
Weaving together eyewitness accounts, journal entries, military communiqués, and newspaper headlines, Groom recreates the war from the charged battlefields to the general's tent w
... (Lees verder)here Grant, Sherman, Lee, and others plotted their unorthodox strategies. He paints vivid portraits of the major players in the conflict, revealing the character, the faults, the emotions, and most of all the doubts that molded the course of the war.
"Storytelling with energy, surprise, freshness, power, and yes, art." —Chicago Tribune
"Meticulously reconstructed . . . shows us the war in all its savagery." —Los Angeles Times
"An excellent introduction into a complex campaign." —Publishers Weekly
Pagina's
308
Conditie
Goed — Red permanent market line on bottom.
Prijs
€ 15,00

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