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The conclusion of this Civil War alternative history series finds the Union struggling after losses in a battle to save Washington, D.C., in 1863. As Lincoln pins his hopes on Grant, the two generals, Lee and Grant, head for a deciding battle on the banks of Maryland's Monocacy Creek. Military plotting and strategy form the core of the novel; real-life figures on both sides are generally portrayed as noble but are rarely fleshed out in this abridgment. Boyd Gaines usually makes the story exciting, but the novel occasionally succumbs to the dry details of military maneuverings. Still, Civil War enthusiasts will be fascinated--and perhaps surprised by the authors' conclusion. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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The former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and his historian coauthor conclude their best-selling trilogy offering an alternate history of the Civil War. As was true of its predecessors, this is a swiftly paced and authentically grounded novel; this installment covers the end of the terrible North-South strife. In the previous volumes in the trilogy, Gettysburg (2003) and Grant Comes East (2004), the authors invented an alternative to how the Battle of Gettysburg was fought and won (in their version, the South won that battle) and offered a plausible consequence of the Confederate victory: namely, an advance on Washington, D.C. Now, the authors move up Lee's actual April 1865 surrender to August 1863 and, in the process, create quite realistic and creative actions and movements for each side leading up to the war's blessed end--with Lee realizing the futility of further Southern persistence. Again, as in the previous volumes in the trilogy, the authors' research is impeccable, and their presentation brings events down to a personal level, and, as in any good alternate vision of history, the reader is left believing it could really have happened this way. Brad Hooper
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The conclusion of this Civil War alternative history series finds the Union struggling after losses in a battle to save Washington, D.C., in 1863. As Lincoln pins his hopes on Grant, the two generals, Lee and Grant, head for a deciding battle on the banks of Maryland's Monocacy Creek. Military plotting and strategy form the core of the novel; real-life figures on both sides are generally portrayed as noble but are rarely fleshed out in this abridgment. Boyd Gaines usually makes the story exciting, but the novel occasionally succumbs to the dry details of military maneuverings. Still, Civil War enthusiasts will be fascinated--and perhaps surprised by the authors' conclusion. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
From Booklist
The former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and his historian coauthor conclude their best-selling trilogy offering an alternate history of the Civil War. As was true of its predecessors, this is a swiftly paced and authentically grounded novel; this installment covers the end of the terrible North-South strife. In the previous volumes in the trilogy, Gettysburg (2003) and Grant Comes East (2004), the authors invented an alternative to how the Battle of Gettysburg was fought and won (in their version, the South won that battle) and offered a plausible consequence of the Confederate victory: namely, an advance on Washington, D.C. Now, the authors move up Lee's actual April 1865 surrender to August 1863 and, in the process, create quite realistic and creative actions and movements for each side leading up to the war's blessed end--with Lee realizing the futility of further Southern persistence. Again, as in the previous volumes in the trilogy, the authors' research is impeccable, and their presentation brings events down to a personal level, and, as in any good alternate vision of history, the reader is left believing it could really have happened this way. Brad Hooper
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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