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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: fateful lightning
    sub title: a novel of the Civil War
  name:
    name part: Shaara, Jeff
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Historical fiction.
  genre: War stories.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 615 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn. November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds to Ulysses S. Grant's successes by bringing the general east, promoting Grant to command the entire Union war effort, while William Tecumseh Sherman now directs the Federal forces that occupy all of Tennessee. In a massive surge southward, Sherman conquers the city of Atlanta, sweeping aside the Confederate army under the inept leadership of General John Bell Hood. Pushing through northern Georgia, Sherman's legendary "March to the Sea" shoves away any Rebel presence, and by Christmas 1864 the city of Savannah falls into the hands of "Uncle Billy." Now there is but one direction for Sherman to go. In his way stands the last great hope for the Southern cause, General Joseph E. Johnston. In the concluding novel of his epic Civil War tetralogy, Jeff Shaara tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of the general who vowed to "make Georgia howl" until it surrendered. In Johnston, we see a man agonizing over the limits of his army's power, and accepting the burden of leading the last desperate effort to ensure the survival of the Confederacy. The Civil War did not end quietly. It climaxed in a storm of fury that lay waste to everything in its path. The Fateful Lightning brings to life those final brutal, bloody months of fighting with you-are-there immediacy, grounded in the meticulous research that readers have come to expect from Jeff Shaara. P…
  note: Jeff Shaara.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)
      name part: 1820-1891
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Generals
    geographic: United States
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Historical
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / War & Military
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Action & Adventure
  classification: PS3569.H18 F38 2015
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: FIC014000 FIC032000 FIC002000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Civil war ; bk. 4
    name:
      name part: Shaara, Jeff
      name part: 1952-
  identifier: 9780345549198 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0345549198 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 9780345549204 (ebook)
  identifier: 2015011013
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150323
    record change date: 20151105212830.0
    record identifier: in00003525936
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng