num_pages: 512
description: Winner of the 2015 Boyd Award for Literary Excellence in Military FictionIn the Valley of the Shadow they wrote their names in blood.From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington D.C. to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of our Civil Warin mighty battles now all but forgotten.The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley breadbasket of the Confederacy and the South's key invasion route into the North pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: runty rough-hewn Phillip Sheridan a Union general with an uncanny gift for inspiring soldiers and Jubal Early his Confederate counterpart stubborn raw-mouthed and deadly; the dashing Yankee boy-general George Armstrong Custer and the brilliant courageous John Brown Gordon a charismatic Georgian who lived one of the era's greatest love stories.From hungry hard-bitten Rebel privates to a pair of Union officers destined to become presidents from a neglected hero who saved our nation's capital and went on to write one of his century's greatest novels to doomed Confederate leaders of incomparable valor Ralph Peters brings to life yesteryear's giants and their breathtaking battles with the same authenticity skill and insight he offered readers in his prize-winning Civil War bestsellers Cain at Gettysburg and Hell or Richmond.Sharp as a bayonet and piercing as a bullet Valley of the Shadow is a great novel of our grandest most-tragic war.
language: English
title: Valley of the Shadow
publisher: Forge Books