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Inside the first novel of any spellbinding new trilogy, New York Times best-selling writer Jeff Shaara results to the Civil Warfare terrain he is aware best. A Blaze of Glory will take us to the action-packed American Movie theater for a vivid re-creation of 1 of the war's bloodiest and most iconic engagements: the Battle of Shiloh. It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Military in the Western world teeters on the brink of collapse following a catastrophic lack of Fort Donelson. Commanding standard Albert Sidney Johnston is compelled to take up stakes, reject the critical city of Nashville, and rally his soldiers in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Offer, fresh off his career-making success at Fort Donelson, and Don Carlos Buell. If their combined forces can crush Johnston's army and capture the railroad, the battle in the Western world likely will be over. There's just one problem: Johnston is aware of the Union plans, and is poised to release an audacious delight attack on Grant's encampment - a little settlement deal in southwestern Tennessee anchored by a humble church called Shiloh. With stunning you-are-there immediacy, Shaara will take us inside the maelstrom of Shiloh as no novelist has before. Sketching on careful research, he dramatizes the key activities and decisions of the commanders on both edges: Johnston, Offer, Sherman, Beauregard, and the illustrious Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. Here too will be the thoughts and voices of the junior officers, conscripts, and enlisted men who provided their all for the cause, among them Confederate cavalry lieutenant James Seeley and Private Fritz "Dutchie" Bauer of the 16th Wisconsin Regiment - courageous members in a pitched back-and-forth battle whose casualty matter would far exceed anything the American community had yet seen in this battle. By the finish of the first day of fighting, as Grant's bedraggled forces regroup for could be their previous stand, two major events - both totally sudden - will turn the tide of the battle as well as perhaps the battle itself.
