Bøger af Frank P Slaughter

"Will Castor serves in Battery D, 1st Regiment, Michigan Light Artillery, sending shells into the ranks of Confederate infantry whenever he's ordered to do so. When his unit's position is overrun at the Battle of Chickamauga, Will witnesses and commits ghastly horrors to survive the day. Separated from his army and incapacitated with a broken leg, he hooks up with a Confederate deserter who takes him home to Tennessee and shelters him.... Haunted by the traumas of the war, the wilds present Will with an unexpected opportunity for redemption-though it may prove to be an even greater battle than the one at Chickamauga."Slaughter is a fastidious writer, summoning the worlds of Civil War artillery and the 19th-century lumber industry in all their gritty details.... Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the story is its postwar period and its depiction of Will's PTSD. The reader feels great empathy for this broken veteran, stumbling about in an era when the language for such aftereffects had not yet been established."An ornate, gruesome, and rigorously crafted Civil War novel." - Kirkus Reviews

"Two generations removed from Will Castor, the haunted veteran of the Civil War's Battle of Chickamauga, the Castors have become a prominent family in the mining town of Ishpeming, Michigan. When a conflict even greater than the War Between the States breaks out in Europe, two of the Castor boys answer the call: John, a shy, studious young man whom the other Marines call "Teach," and Matt, a charming rake who's popular with his fellow soldiers as well as with the farm girls of France...."As in the previous novel..., the real war here is internal and lasts long after shots have ceased to ring out; it's fought in the minds of those lucky (or unlucky) enough to survive. With this story, however, Slaughter is able to expand beyond the effects of war on one person to explore their repercussions for an entire family-a clan that holds sacred its responsibility to protect its members from harm."A sharp, immersive family drama played out against the ravages of war." - Kirkus Reviews