Judgment at Appomattox
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The ferocious final weeks of the Civil War come alive in Judgment at Appomattox, the final novel of New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters's breathtaking, Boyd Award-winning series
A great war nears its end. Robert E. Lee makes a desperate, dramatic gamble. It fails. Ulysses S. Grant moves. Veteran armies clash around Petersburg, Virginia, as Grant seeks to surround Lee and Lee makes a skillful withdrawal in the night. Richmond falls.
Each day brings new combat and more casualties, as Lee's exhausted, hungry troops race to preserve the Confederacy. But Grant does not intend to let Lee escape...
In one of the most thrilling episodes in American history, heroes North and South, John Brown Gordon and Phillip Sheridan, James Longstreet and Francis Channing Barlow, battle each other across southern Virginia as the armies converge on a sleepy country court house.
Written with the literary flair and historical accuracy readers expect from Ralph Peters, Judgment at Appomattox takes us through the Civil War's last grim interludes of combat as flags fall and hearts break. Capping the author's acclaimed five-novel cycle on the war in the East, this "dramatized history" pays homage to all the soldiers who fought, from an Irish-immigrant private wearing gray, to the "boy generals" who mastered modern war. This is a grand climax to a great, prize-winning series that honors—and reveals—America's past.
Battle Hymn Cycle
Cain at Gettysburg
Hell or Richmond
Valley of the Shadow
The Damned of Petersburg
Judgment at Appomattox
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Ralph Peters. (2017). Judgment at Appomattox. Tor Publishing Group.
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A great war nears its end. Robert E. Lee makes a desperate, dramatic gamble. It fails. Ulysses S. Grant moves. Veteran armies clash around Petersburg, Virginia, as Grant seeks to surround Lee and Lee makes a skillful withdrawal in the night. Richmond falls.
Each day brings new combat and more casualties, as Lee's exhausted, hungry troops race to preserve the Confederacy. But Grant does not intend to let Lee escape...
In one of the most thrilling episodes in American history, heroes North and South, John Brown Gordon and Phillip Sheridan, James Longstreet and Francis Channing Barlow, battle each other across southern Virginia as the armies converge on a sleepy country court house.
Written with the literary flair and historical accuracy readers expect from Ralph Peters, Judgment at Appomattox takes us through the Civil War's last grim interludes of combat as flags fall and hearts break. Capping the author's acclaimed five-novel cycle on the war in the East, this "dramatized history" pays homage to all the soldiers who fought, from an Irish-immigrant private wearing gray, to the "boy generals" who mastered modern war. This is a grand climax to a great, prize-winning series that honors—and reveals—America's past.
Battle Hymn Cycle
Cain at Gettysburg
Hell or Richmond
Valley of the Shadow
The Damned of Petersburg
Judgment at Appomattox
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"The final volume of Ralph Peters' series on the epic story of the Army of the Potomac and Army of Northern Virginia from Gettysburg to Appomattox lives up to the standard of high drama of its predecessors. Here is fiction firmly rooted in historical sources, dialogue that reflects the genuine vernacular, personalities true to the characters they portray. If you thought you knew the Civil War, read these books to discover how much you still had to learn."
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Starred review from July 1, 2017
Civil War chronicler Peters (The Damned of Petersburg, 2016, etc.) once again writes of war in Technicolor, this time chronicling the blood-drenched chaos of close combat as Grant's Army of the Potomac forces the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.Following the four earlier novels in Peters' series, this volume picks up the war near its end, taking us from March 25 to April 9, 1865, from retreat to surrender, as Peters dissects battles, skirmishes, and routs as Lee abandons Petersburg's fortifications and is driven relentlessly to subjugation at Appomattox Courthouse. Each clash is distinct, a logical progression arising from Grant having assumed command of the Union Army, the first general to crank his resolve to the sticking place and relentlessly press Lee's exhausted, starving, ever loyal troops--"these heroes who smelled like mules and fought like archangels." This endgame is glimpsed mostly from the perspectives of each army's brigadiers, colonels, and captains--some forever famous, like Joshua Chamberlain, hero of Gettysburg, and boy general George Custer, and others not. It's the byplay of their skills and incompetencies, resentments and favoritisms that fuels both victory and defeat. Everyone gets his due, from Lincoln, his despair at last driven into shadows by Grant's victories, to the runty cavalry general "Little Phil" Sheridan, self-aggrandizing at the expense of lesser generals who provided victories. Then there's Lee himself, physically ill and haunted by the past, and Pickett, failure at Gettysburg, found wanting at Five Forks. The dialogue comes complete with soldierly vulgarities, and descriptions of the maelstroms of open field charges and hand-to-hand combat are so vivid--skulls shattered, guts spilled and trampled--that it seems as if Peters has handed out Springfield 1861 Rifles and pushed us to fill a slot in the skirmish line. Once again a master of historical military fiction has made real the sound and fury of the Civil War.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Each day brings new combat and more casualties, as Lee's exhausted, hungry troops race to preserve the Confederacy. But Grant does not intend to let Lee escape...
In one of the most thrilling episodes in American history, heroes North and South, John Brown Gordon and Phillip Sheridan, James Longstreet and Francis Channing Barlow, battle each other across southern Virginia as the armies converge on a sleepy country court house.
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