Didn't think I would be a fan of Civil War fiction preferring the actual reported tales to author creative liberties. I was wrong. Peters does an incredible job of using the actual recorded events and comments and fills the gaps with believable dialog, characters, and moments. The story never slo...
This was a fast paced read full of gruesome war images depicting a hypothetical future 'armageddon' styled war in the middle east focused around Israel where nuclear weapons are eventually used. The reasoning behind the plot is a sort of 'what if' question: What if the people of the United States...
I loved this book from the first time I picked it up. In my teen years I read a lot of Tom Clancy so I was pretty well up to speed on 1980's weapon systems, and since I'd already ground through Red Storm Rising I thought I knew what I was in for here.I was mistaken.Red Army is not Red Storm Risin...
This book was absolutely amazing.In an odd backstory of how the book came to me, it was sent to my mom to then give to me, sent by a friend of a woman she knew only through phone calls and email correspondence, as they were employed by the same company, my mom in California, her friend/co-worker ...
Then he waited.“You didn’t answer my question,” his brother-in-law pestered. “You still think we can overcome the animus, put this country back together … as one nation? You really think that, Rud? After all this?”“Yes,” Hayes said, looking at his pocket watch.“Well, then,” Doc Joe said, “Lucy ou...
He had been escorting Frances to the Methodist church. Only they weren’t in Schuylkill Haven. It was Knoxville and sharply cold. Concerned, he told her over and over that she needed a coat or a shawl. He had his greatcoat, but he couldn’t give it to her, though he didn’t know why. Then she was go...