When This Cruel War is Over - Hardcover

Fleming, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312872046 ISBN 13: 9780312872045

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2001

Synopsis

WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER portrays two generations of Americans struggling to make sense of a national catastrophe in the face of a future that is shot through with darkness. The time is the summer of 1864, the third year of the Civil War that has already killed a half million Americans. The place is Indiana and Kentucky, divided by the Ohio River but joined by a growing fury at the Federal government's ruthless censorship and intolerance. Janet Todd is a courier and evangelist for the Sons of Liberty, the revolutionary conspiracy which intends to unite the American heartland into a Northwest Confederacy - and stop the war. Major Paul Stapleton commands a troop of cavalrymen who hunt Union deserters. Secretly disgusted with the war, Paul is torn between his love for Janet Todd and his oath of loyalty to the Union. It is history as only Thomas Fleming can write it, laced with suspense and searing human insight, rooted in deep research and even deeper human compassion.

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About the Author:

Thomas Fleming is the author of more than 40 books of fiction and history. He was born in Jersey City, N.J., the son of a powerful local politician, who gave him a lifelong interest in politics and history. He is the only writer in the seventy year history of the Book of the Month Club to win main selections in both fiction and nonfiction. His 1981 novel, "The Officers' Wives," won international acclaim, selling more than 2,000,000 copies." Liberty! The American Revolution" was listed as one of the eight best books of 1997 by the History Book Club.Fleming has made the Revolution his special field. Three of his books have won best-book-of-the-year citations from the American Revolution Round Table of New York. He has also demonstrated a sweeping grasp of the entire course of American history in West Point: "The Men and Times of the U.S. Military Academy, The New Dealers' War" and other books. Fleming is a senior scholar on the board of the National Center for the American Revolution. He is also a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He often appears as a commentator on PBS, the History Channel and A&E. He lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312872046
• ISBN 13: 9780312872045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304