Gone For Soldiers
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; Second Printing
Publisher: New York: Ballantine Publishing Group, 2000.
ISBN: 0345427505
Gone For Soldiers
A wonderful first edition, 2nd printing, copy in As New condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Jeff Shaara.
It is 1847, Mexico, and the United States has sent its army to invade foreign soil for the first time. The story follows closely the experiences of two main characters. Robert E. Lee is a forty-year-old captain, who has built a solid reputation in the United States army for efficiency and excellence as an engineer, but who has never seen combat. His commanding officer is the grand old man of the army, "Old Fuss and Feathers", Major General Winfield Scott, who has come down from Washington to take command of the army's invasion of Vera Cruz. The ultimate goal is victory, by the capture of the capital of Mexico City, an overland march that will take Scott's army away from its supply line, and all communication with the hand-wringing government in Washington. And despite the arrogant assertions of their politicians, the Americans are up against a serious and dangerous enemy, the Mexican dictator Santa Anna, whose army greatly outnumbers Scott's meager force. But the commanding general will not be denied, and leads his men in one of the most daring campaigns in military history; 8vo; Signed by Author.
Price: $60.00
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