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Sherman Stars

 

Fiction and Nonfiction related to General Sherman.

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • Grant
    Author: Byrd, Max
    Publisher: Bantam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0553096338 Date: 2000
    In his bestselling novels Jefferson and Jackson, Byrd penetrated the mysteries of two of America's most famous leaders. Now, in the magnificent tradition of Gore Vidal, he paints an unforgettable portrait of the fascinating, flawed, and remarkable man who may well be our most uniquely American hero.
    Updated 8.18.05
  • Sherman's March
    Author: Bass, Cynthia
    Publisher: Villard $ 21 ISBN: 0679430334 Date: 1994
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    Bass treats this infamous turning point in our country's past with exquisite and tragic detail and breathes new life and honesty into an event that has long since ossified from truth into legend. Told from the perspectives of three different characters, this novel shows both the utter devastation of the march--and its utter necessity.
    Updated 8.18.05
  • The March
    Author: Doctorow, E.L.
    Publisher: Random $ 25.95 ISBN: 0375506713 Date: 2005
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    In the last years of the Civil War, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman marched 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, cutting a 60-mile wide swath of pillage and destruction. That event comes back to life in this magisterial novel.
    Suggested Reading: Civil War Stars
    Updated 8.15.05
  • Stars & Stripes Forever
    Author: Harrison, Harry
    Publisher: Del Rey $ 24.95 ISBN: 0345409337 Date: 1998
    What if, at the height of the U.S. Civil War, Great Britain launched a full-blown attack on a vulnerable America? This epic alternate history in the tradition of The Guns of the South is by an internationally bestselling and award-winning author.
    Updated 8.18.05
  • Stars & Stripes in Peril
    Author: Harrison, Harry
    Publisher: Del Rey $ 25.95 ISBN: 0345409353Date: 2000
    Harrison follows up the honored first installment of the "Stars & Stripes" trilogy with Stars & Stripes in Peril, where Lincoln, leading a reunited United States, sets off on a bold strategic initiative--to take U.S. forces and invade the soil of England herself.
    Updated 8.18.05
  • Stars and Stripes Triumphant
    Author: Harrison, Harry
    Publisher: Del Rey $ 24.95 ISBN: 034540937X Date: 2003
    In the final chapter in Harrison's alternate history trilogy, the re-United States is faced with their ultimate challenge: a British government that has lost a war and is looking for revenge. The final battle will take place in Scotland, as Lincoln and Sherman set the stage for war back on the British Isles.
    Updated 8.18.05
  • Savannah: Or a Gift for Mr. Lincoln
    Author: Jakes, John
    Publisher: Dutton $ 23.95 ISBN: 0525948031 Date: 2004
    Jakes, "the godfather of the historical novel" ("Los Angeles Times"), brings to life an almost forgotten moment in the Civil War--a season of simmering hostilities, rising hopes, and empty stockings--perhaps the most strife-torn yet heartwarming Christmas in all of American history.
    Updated 8.18.05
  • Gone With the Wind
    Author: Mitchell, Margaret
    Publisher: Scribner $ 26 ISBN: 068483068x Date: 1996 edition
    A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.
    Updated 8.18.05
  • Bride of Texas
    Author: Skvorecky, Josef
    Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: Date: 1996
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    From the widely acclaimed author of Dvorak in Love and The Engineer of Human Souls comes an unusual Civil War novel based on the documented memories of Czech soldiers who fought for the Union in the 26th Wisconsin battalion under General William Tecumseh Sherman.
    Updated 8.18.05
  • A Distant Flame
    Author: Williams, Philip Lee
    Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312332521 Date: 2004
    A literary novel of love, dedication, and growth, A Distant Flame takes readers from the Civil War's fields of fire to the slow steps of old age.
    Updated 8.18.05

Nonfiction

  • Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
    Author: Flood, Charles Bracelen
    Publisher: FSG $ 27 ISBN: 0374166005 Date: 2005
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    Moving and elegantly written, Grant and Sherman is a historical page turner: a gripping portrait of two men, whose friendship, forged on the battlefield, would win the Civil War.
    Updated 8.15.05