A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg
- ISBN-10
- 0345527380
- ISBN-13
- 9780345527387
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 562
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Civil War in the West
- Author
- Jeff Shaara
Description
The best-selling author of A Blaze of Glory presents a first installment in a new trilogy inspired by the Siege of Vicksburg that follows Ulysses S. Grant's successful cross of the Mississippi in May 1863 and his reluctant decision to surround Confederate soldiers and citizens in a ring of Federal entrenchments to starve them into surrendering.
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