This book, along with the other two novels in this trilogy, are exceptional!! Shaara writes excellently and the reader can become engrossed in the storylines that are based on actual events with the touch of fiction that Shaara is famous for. If you wanted to read something of World War II, but d...
The focus here is on the battle of Shiloh, along the Tennessee River about 10 miles North of the Mississippi State Line. It was the first big battle in the Western Theater of the Civil War (basically, anything happening west of the Appalachian Mountains). The earlier engagements at Fort Henry and...
I liked this book but people who are not interested in WWII probably wouldn't. The book is very tense-many descriptions of combat. I had to take a break and reading something else now and then. I like that Shaara changes narrators often in the book, but wish there would have been at least one ...
In A Chain of Thunder, Jeff Shaara continues his series on the War in the West bringing us the campaign which opened the Mississippi and introduces us to some very interesting characters. Through his usual narrative, there comes some clarity which has left Civil War novices confused about the Vi...
Jeff Shaara has shown himself a master of the Civil War novel in his latest book,The Smoke at Dawn. This third book in his Western Theatre series chronicles the reflections, decisions, and drama entangled with the lives of the leading figures of the Civil War. It’s the fall of 1863, and General G...
For years, Jeff Shaara has been blending fiction and history intocompelling and emotionally charged story devices for readers.Following in the footsteps of his father, Michael, the winner ofthe Pulitzer Prize for his historical novel THE KILLER ANGELS,Shaara has impressed common readers as well a...
This is an extraordinary, historical novel by Jeff Shaara. From the opening chapter about the murder of a fisherman in Brooklyn’s Graveshead Bay by invading, sea-borne British troops (which in present day is nestled between the Verrazano Bridge to the north, and Sea Gate to the south), Shaara’s ...
He tried to hold back the sounds, wouldn’t wake anyone with his own grief, wouldn’t let the staff see what they already knew to be the worst tragedy of his life. The boy was only nine, had begged and cajoled to accompany his father as much as the boy’s mother would permit, and so the boy’s parent...
—DAVID P. CONYNGHAM, The New York Herald The trail of destruction began with the first advance of Sherman’s men, the soldiers as aware as their commander that South Carolina was a very special place, destined for the kind of punishment that went beyond scavenging for supplies. Hardeeville was amo...
ROMMEL SEMMERING, THE AUSTRIAN ALPSOCTOBER 24, 1942I t had been three weeks, but the doctors said it would take him far longer to fully regain his health. In Egypt, he had left behind careful instructions for the continuing defense of his army, to guard against the inevitable offensive that Montg...