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Gone for soldiers

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"In March 1847, the U. S. Navy delivers eight thousand soldiers on the beaches of Vera Cruz. They are led by the army's commanding general, Winfield Scott, a heroic veteran of the War of 1812, short tempered, vain, and nostalgic for the glories of his youth. At his right hand is Robert E. Lee, a forty-year-old engineer, a dignified, serious man who has never seen combat.".

"Scott leads his troops against the imperious Mexican dictator, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Obsessed with glory and his place in history, Santa Anna arrogantly underestimates the will and the heart of Scott and his army. As the Americans fight their way inland, both sides understand that the inevitable final conflict will come at the gates and fortified walls of the ancient capital, Mexico City.".

"Cut off from communication and their only supply line, the Americans learn about their enemy and themselves, as young men witness for the first time the horror of war. While Scott must weigh his own place in history, fighting what many consider a bully's war, Lee the engineer becomes Lee the hero, the one man in Scott's command whose extraordinary destiny as a soldier is clear."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
424

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Gone For Soldiers
November 4, 2003, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
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Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
July 3, 2001, Ballantine Books
Paperback in English
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Gone for soldiers
2000, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st ed.
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Gone for soldiers
2000, Random House Large Print
in English - 1st large print ed.
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Gone for Soldiers
2000, Random House Publishing Group
Electronic resource in English
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Gone For Soldiers: A Novel Of The Mexican War
June 6, 2000, Books on Tape, Inc.
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Cover of: Gone for Soldiers
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
December 2000, Listening Library
Audio Cassette in English - UNABRIDGED edition
Cover of: Gone for soldiers
Gone for soldiers
2000, Ballantine Books
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3569.H18 G66 2000b, PS3569.H18G66 2000b

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 424 p. :
Number of pages
424

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6778966M
ISBN 10
0345427505
LCCN
00022745
OCLC/WorldCat
43434730
Library Thing
47959
Goodreads
878930

Work Description

In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.In March 1847, 8,000 soldiers landed on the beaches of Vera Cruz, led by the army's commanding general, Winfield Scott-a heroic veteran of the War of 1812, short tempered, vain, and nostalgic for the glories of his youth. At his right hand is Robert E. Lee, a forty year-old engineer, a dignified, serious man who has never seen combat.In vivid prose that illuminates the dark psychology of soldiers trapped behind enemy lines, Jeff Shaara brings to life the familiar characters, the stunning triumphs and soul-crushing defeats of this fascinating, long-forgotten war.

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