Valley of the Shadow by Ralph Peters
Winner of the 2015 Boyd Award for Literary Excellence in Military Fiction
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.
Ralph Peters is a bestselling, award-winning novelist, a journalist who has covered various conflicts and appears frequently in the broadcast media, and a lifelong traveler who has visited over seventy countries on six continents. Ralph Peters' journalism has appeared in dozens of newspapers, journals, and web-zines, including The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Harpers, and Armchair General Magazine, to name a few. The Officers' Club, The War After Armageddon, Endless War, and Red Army are among his works. Peters grew up in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and attended Penn State University to study writing. He is based in Washington, D.C., where he writes and lives.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780765374035 |
| ISBN 10 | 076537403X |
| Title | Valley of the Shadow |
| Author | Ralph Peters |
| Series | Battle Hymn Cycle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Forge |
| Year published | 2015-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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