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Bezig met laden... Look Away (1995)door Harold Coyle
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Civil War novel. Very Good. Follows two brothers on opposite sides up thru Gettysburg. The first in a series about the American Civil Way from one of America’s foremost military fiction writers. The book follows the fortunes of two families through the build to an execution of the American Civil War. The Bannon brothers, Irish immigrants now living in Boston with their power driven tyrannical father have always had each other. When they fall in love with the same girl, her accidental death and James Bannon’s banishment to the South to attend VMI follows. There, James makes friends with Will McPherson, son of a farm family in Winchester VA. When war breaks out, James is swept away by his friend and the alienation he feels towards home and family, to fight for the South. His brother Kevin, in order to prove his love to a girl from high society, find himself and get away from the rule of his father enlists as an officer in the New Jersey Volunteers. The brothers find themselves thrown into a war of brutality, carnage, suffering and length that nobody anticipated. Both find support in themselves and others, James in Will and his sister Mary-Beth and Kevin in his love, Harriet Shields. The book cover battles from the 1st Manasass to Gettysburg where the brothers meet for the first time in years. The author has one a serious amount of research on the conduct of the people both in and out of the war. The main characters are all based on actual persons and the accounts of battles and the events in and around them are real. It makes for a steady flow of the text and the action as well as lending a great amount of believability. It is an entertaining book, probably more so for history or civil wars fans than most but well written. The characters do tend to get caught in a 2-D state of emotional development and always seem to fall back to mundane or repetitive states when the confronted with decisions. OK, now these are fun. It's got me wanting to do ACW again. I may just buy a Springfield musket...even though I haven't fired the last ACW firearm I bought. Anyway, Coyle went undercover for these books, serving with ACW re-enactment regiments, which just sounds like fun! He does a good job with the fighting of course, but it's the social interaction that I think he really displays talent, in making them interesting and relevant without bogging down a war novel. He also does a really good job of having his characters grow within the story. I'm reading the second one now, I can't wait to find out who wins. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A New Jersey businessman arranges to have his sons fight on opposite sides in the Civil War so he can be a winner either way. The novel follows the brothers' fortunes in love and war, climaxing in their meeting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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