Gone for Soldiers
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ISBN: 0553711989 / Publisher: Random House Audio, May 2000
Eight thousand marines land in Vera Cruz bound for a war against the Mexican army, including Winfield Scott, a general who made history in the War of 1812, and Robert E. Lee, a forty-year-old engineer as yet untested in battle.
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Five CDs, 6 hoursFrom Jeff Shaara, The New York Times bestselling author of Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure comes a tale of the men who helped to define the nation.Thirteen years before the outbreak of the Civil War, many of the leaders on the opposite sides of that war, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Longstreet, Jackson, Hancock, et al., travelled to Mexico to battle the wily and enigmatic Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. Told through the eyes of two very different men, Robert E. Lee and General Winfield Scott, GONE FOR SOLDIERS is not merely the story of the two-year struggle on unfamiliar soil. It is also the story of an untested engineer first experiencing the horrors of war and assuming a position as a leader of men.Combining stirring battle scenes with the kind of penetrating psychological and strategic insight that made his two previous books New York Times bestsellers, GONE FOR SOLDIERS is sure to make its own place in history.
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