Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War

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Thirteen years before ihe outbreak of the conflict that in many ways still defines and divides our nation, many of the leaders on opposite sides of that war, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Longstreet, Jackson, Hancock, et. al., traveled to Mexico to battle the wily and enigmatic Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Told primarily 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. Fortunately for Captain Lee, he can observe and benefit from the wisdom and guidance of a veteran commander. From the time the American troops landed at Vera Cruz, General Winfield Scott, known somewhat affectionately as Old Fuss and Feathers for his considerable temper, sees something special in the quiet, dignified Virginian. Whether General Scott is assigning Lee duty as a scout, as the engineer in charge of gun placements, or as a trusted confidante to whom he can't vent his frustrations over Washington's interference and the political backbiting taking place on his own command staff, the two men develop a deep, if unspoken, regard for one another. Combining stirring battle scenes with the kind of penetrating psychological and strategic insight that made all ofJeffShaara's novels bestsellers, GONE FOR SOLDIERS is sure to make its own place in history.

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Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of A Chain of Thunder, A Blaze of Glory, The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure-two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives again in Tallahassee. From the Hardcover edition.