Valley of the Shadow: A Novel (The Battle Hymn Cycle 3)
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Winner of the 2015 Boyd Award for Literary Excellence in Military Fiction New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters returns with Valley of the Shadow the third installment in his Boyd Award-winning series on the Civil War In the Valley of the Shadow they wrote their names in blood. The summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the American Civil War from a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington D.C. to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creekmighty battles now all but forgotten. The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginias Shenandoah Valley pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: Philip Sheridan a Union general with an uncanny gift for inspiring soldiers and Jubal Early his Confederate counterpart stubborn and deadly; George Armstrong Custer and the brilliant courageous John Brown Gordon. Ralph Peters brings to life yesteryears giants and their breathtaking battles. Sharp as a bayonet and piercing as a bullet Valley of the Shadow is a great novel of our grandest most-tragic war.
