MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02828cam a2200385 i 4500
001 2015012419
003 DLC
005 20150710085315.0
008 150406s2015 nyuab 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015012419
020 $a9780765374035 (cloth)
020 $z9781466839816 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS3566.E7559$bV35 2015
082 00 $a813/.54$223
084 $aFIC032000$aFIC027040$aFIC014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aPeters, Ralph.
245 10 $aValley of the shadow /$cRalph Peters ; maps by George Skoch.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bForge,$c2015.
300 $a509 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
520 $a"In the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood. From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, D.C., to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of our Civil War--in mighty battles now all but forgotten. The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, breadbasket of the Confederacy and the South's key invasion route into the North, pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: runty, rough-hewn Phillip Sheridan, a Union general with an uncanny gift for inspiring soldiers, and Jubal Early, his Confederate counterpart, stubborn, raw-mouthed and deadly; the dashing Yankee boy-general, George Armstrong Custer, and the brilliant, courageous John Brown Gordon, a charismatic Georgian who lived one of the era's greatest love stories. From hungry, hard-bitten Rebel privates to a pair of Union officers destined to become presidents, from a neglected hero who saved our nation's capital and went on to write one of his century's greatest novels, to doomed Confederate leaders of incomparable valor, Ralph Peters brings to life yesteryear's giants and their breathtaking battles with the same authenticity, skill and insight he offered readers in his prize-winning Civil War bestsellers, Cain at Gettysburg and Hell or Richmond. Sharp as a bayonet and piercing as a bullet, Valley of the Shadow is a great novel of our grandest, most-tragic war"--$cProvided by publisher.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / War & Military.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Romance / Gothic.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aWar stories.$2gsafd
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/035/9780765374035/image/lgcover.9780765374035.jpg