Valley of the shadow

0

0

Peters, Ralph, 1952-

Peters, Ralph

Eva H. Perry Regional
Holly Springs Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional

Adult Fiction

Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
Holly Springs Community - Adult Fiction
North Regional - Adult Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction
Remote Storage - Adult Fiction

"In the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood. From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, D.C., to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of our Civil War--in mighty battles now all but forgotten. The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, breadbasket of the Confederacy and the South's key invasion route into the North, pitted a remarkable cast of heroes inblue and gray against each other: runty, rough-hewn Phillip Sheridan, a Union general with an uncanny gift for inspiring soldiers, and Jubal Early, his Confederate counterpart, stubborn, raw-mouthed and deadly; the dashing Yankee boy-general, George Armstrong Custer, and the brilliant, courageous John Brown Gordon, a charismatic Georgian who lived one of the era's greatest love stories. From hungry, hard-bitten Rebel privates to a pair of Union officers destined to become presidents, from a neglected hero who saved our nation's capital and went on to write one of his century's greatest novels, to doomed Confederate leaders of incomparable valor, Ralph Peters brings to life yesteryear's giants and their breathtaking battles with the same authenticity, skill and insight he offered readers in his prize-winning Civil War bestsellers, Cain at Gettysburg and Hell or Richmond. Sharp as a bayonet and piercing as a bullet, Valley of the Shadow is a great novel of our grandest, most-tragic war"-- "The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley ... pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: ... Phillip Sheridan, a Union general with an uncanny gift for inspiring soldiers, and Jubal Early, his Confederate counterpart; ... the dashing Yankee boy-general, George Armstrong Custer, and the brilliant, courageous John Brown Gordon, a charismatic Georgian who lived one of the era's greatest love stories. From hungry, hard-bitten Rebel privates to a pair of Union officers destined to become presidents, from a neglected hero who saved our nation's capital and went on to write one of his century's greatest novels, to doomed Confederate leaders of incomparable valor, Ralph Peters brings to life yesteryear's giants and their breathtaking battles"--

Book

Books

8c8cb14e-0af3-dda3-27e9-437452cd07a6

9780765374035

BK

2025-08-14T09:15:30.450Z

-1

Fiction

Fiction

PETERS

Wake County Public Libraries

Eva H. Perry Regional
Holly Springs Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional

9780765374035

2015

Forge

grouped_work

Battle hymn cycle

Battle hymn cycle|3

Historical fiction
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
War stories

Valley of the shadow

Valley of the shadow / Ralph Peters ; maps by George Skoch

Valley of the shadow

History