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By giving voice to their experiences at Vicksburg, A Chain of Thunder vividly evokes a battle whose outcome still reverberates more than 150 years after the cannons fell silent.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jeff Shaara's The Smoke at Dawn.Praise for A Chain of Thunder ' Shaara continues to draw powerful novels from the bloody history of the Civil War. Sherman, and the youthful ' grunt' Private Fritz Bauer on the other, the Confederate commanders Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, as well as nineteen-year-old Lucy Spence, a civilian doing her best to survive in the besieged city. On one side stand the emerging legend Grant, his irascible second William T. From the command tents where generals plot strategy to the ruined mansions where beleaguered citizens huddle for safety, this is a panoramic portrait of men and women whose lives are forever altered by the siege. Drawing on comprehensive research and his own intimate knowledge of the Vicksburg Campaign, Jeff Shaara once again weaves brilliant fiction out of the ragged cloth of historical fact. Six weeks later, the starving and destitute Southerners finally surrender, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces on July 4Independence Dayand marking a crucial turning point in the Civil War. Grant reluctantly decides to lay siege to the city, trapping soldiers and civilians alike inside an iron ring of Federal entrenchments. But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence and morale is low. Pemberton's army to retreat to Vicksburg, burning the bridges over the Big Black River in its path. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. There, in the vaunted ' Gibraltar of the Confederacy,' a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union generaland all but seal the fate of the rebel cause. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERContinuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory,Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War.

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