Summer Storm in Gettysburg [Paperback]

Ann Brophy (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Rutledge Books (November 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582442274
• ISBN-13: 978-1582442273
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,767,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Summer Storm in Gettysburg, May 24, 2003

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Ede D. Baldridge (Wilmington, NC 28403) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Summer Storm in Gettysburg (Paperback)

No matter where you're from, and no matter whether you refer to it as The Great Unpleasantness or the War of Northern Aggression or The War Between the States or The Civil War, if you were born in the United States, you grew up knowing about the war and knowing about Gettysburg. And I did. However, in spite of having had to memorize The Gettysburg Address in grammar school, I knew precious little about Gettysburg, and what I did know was probably inaccurate. Perhaps that was because the heart-breaking aspects of that battle are of such enormity as to be beyond my comprehension, having all the characteristics of sensational fiction.
But that battle, in that rural Pennsylvania town, did, indeed, take place. And "Summer Storm in Gettysburg", by Ann Brophy, took me by the hand to that country town ten years before it became noteworthy, then later, to those three tragic days that made its name synonymous with the best and the most horrific of the Civil War. I walked its streets, saw its neighborhoods, met its families and listened to the day-to-day concerns exchanged by its townspeople. and I joined some of its children, one of them a young Jennie Wade, off on a night-time adventure that would prove to be a painful tie that bound.
Ten years hence, Gettysburg, in the oppressive heat and humidity of early July, is the hapless site of trials beyond measure for both the town and the troops. Jennie Wade and her family experience the all-too familiar sadness of neighbor against neighbor and brother fighting brother. That said, it is the coping with the ordinary under extraordinary circumstances that shows the true mettle of Jennie and her family; the birth of Jennie's sister's baby, the care of her two younger brothers as well as the handicapped child of a neighbor, the finding and preparing of food from meal to meal, and the ignoring of her own safety to extend kindness to soldiers posted nearby.
In a fierce skirmish surrounding the Wade house, Jennie is killed by a stray bullet that enters her home. She is the only civilian killed during those terrible three days.
"Summer Storm in Gettysburg" is a novel, but it is a story that is historically sound, and is bound to give you new insight on the grief behind The Gettysburg Address.

5.0 out of 5 stars Ann Brophy: Schreiber an Grob, July 11, 2003

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This review is from: Summer Storm in Gettysburg (Paperback)

Ich liebe ihren Gebrauch der Wörter zu beschreiben, was sie fühlt. Sie ist eine solche kluge Person. Gott segnt sie!

5.0 out of 5 stars Author's Amazing Talents, July 11, 2003

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Roger A. Mitchell (Princeton, NJ 08540 USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Summer Storm in Gettysburg (Paperback)

The author combines a great knowledge about the subject and the storyline is amazing. I read the book in one sitting and I was a changed person. Detail; she uses so much detail to describe the events that are happening. It makes you fell like you are there when it is all happening. God bless her. I really hope she writes another book and it would be great if the offered the book all over the world. Thanks for changing my life.