Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for...
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In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345427519 (0345427513)
ASIN: 345427513
Publish date: July 3rd 2001
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 424
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Military,
American History,
United States,
Military History,
Civil War
Tale of the Mexican War told through the POV of General Winfield Scott, Captain Robert E. Lee and General Santa Ana. While I did learn more about the Mexican War this was really not that compelling. Only General Scott’s sections were interestingly done. Listened to the audio version read by Jonat...