Hell or Richmond

Winner of the American Library Association''s 2014 Boyd Award for Literary Excellence in Military Fiction.Between May 5 and June 3 1864 the Union and Confederate armies suffered 88000 casualties. Twenty-nine thousand were killed wounded or captured in the first two days of combat. The savagery shocked a young divided nation. Against this backdrop of the birth of modern warfare and the painful rebirth of the United States New York Times bestselling novelist Ralph Peters has created a breathtaking narrative that surpasses the drama and intensity of his recent critically acclaimed novel Cain at Gettysburg.In Hell or Richmond thirty days of ceaseless carnage are seen through the eyes of a compelling cast from the Union''s Harvard-valedictorian boy general Francis Channing Barlow to the brawling dirty boots Rebel colonel William C. Oates. From Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee to a simple laborer destined to win the Medal of Honor Peters brings to life an enthralling array of leaders and simple soldiers from both North and South fleshing out history with stunning knowledgeable realism.From the horrific collision of armies in the Wilderness where neither side wanted to fight to the shocking slaughter of the grand charge at Cold Harbor this epic novel delivers a compelling authentic and suspenseful portrait of Civil War combatmemorating the approaching 150th anniversary of this grim encounter between valiant Americans Ralph Peters brings to bear the lessons of his own military career his lifelong study of this war and the men who fought it and his skills as a bestselling prize-winning novelist to portray horrific battles and sublime heroism as no other author has done.