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New York Times best-selling creator Ralph Peters comes back with the 3rd installment in his award-winning series on the Civil War. In the Valley of the Shadow, they published their brands in blood. From a daring Confederate raid that almost seized Washington, DC, to a sensational reversal on the bloody areas of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting with each other of your Civil War, in mighty battles now basically forgotten. The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, breadbasket of the Confederacy and the South's key invasion way in to the North, pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: runty, rough-hewn Philip Sheridan, a Union standard with an uncanny gift idea for inspiring soldiers; Jubal Early on, his Confederate counterpart, tenacious, fresh mouthed, and deadly; the dashing Yankee boy-general George Armstrong Custer; and the fantastic, courageous John Dark brown Gordon, a charismatic Georgian who resided one of the era's most significant love stories. From hungry, hard-bitten Rebel privates to a set of Union officers destined to become presidents; from a neglected hero who kept our nation's capital and continued to write one of his century's greatest books to doomed Confederate market leaders of incomparable valor, Ralph Peters brings alive yesteryear's giants and their breathtaking battles with the same authenticity, skill, and information he offered readers in his prizewinning Civil War best vendors Cain at Gettysburg and Hell or Richmond.
