Jeff Shaara

Jeff Shaara (Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gods and Generals, Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, No Less Than Victory, Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Rise to Rebellion, Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, The Glorious Cause, The Last Full Measure)

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure–two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize—winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota. (added from Random House)… (more)

Jeff Shaara

We are so excited that New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara is continuing his Civil War trilogy with A Chain of Thunder. If you’re a historical fiction buff, you won’t want to miss this. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. THURSDAY, MAY 30 at 7:00 p.m. Anderson's Bookshop Naperville | 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville

Location: Street: Anderson's Bookshop Naperville Additional: 123 W Jefferson Ave City: Naperville, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60540 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jeff Shaara (Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gods and Generals, Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, No Less Than Victory, Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Rise to Rebellion, Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, The Glorious Cause, The Last Full Measure)

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure–two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize—winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota. (added from Random House)… (more)

Jeff Shaara (Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gods and Generals, Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, No Less Than Victory, Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Rise to Rebellion, Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, The Glorious Cause, The Last Full Measure)

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure–two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize—winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota. (added from Random House)… (more)

**NOON EVENT**

Continuing the trilogy that began with A Blaze of Glory, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted "Gibraltar of the Confederacy," a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general--and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.

In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton's army to retreat to Vicksburg, burning the bridges over the Big Black River in its path. But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence and morale is low. Grant reluctantly decides to lay siege to the city, trapping soldiers and civilians alike inside an iron ring of Federal entrenchments. Ten days later, the starving and destitute Southerners finally surrender, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces on July 4--Independence Day--and marking a crucial turning point in the Civil War.

Drawing on comprehensive research and his own intimate knowledge of the Vicksburg Campaign, Jeff Shaara once again weaves brilliant fiction out of the ragged cloth of historical fact. From the command tents where generals plot strategy to the ruined mansions where beleaguered citizens huddle for safety, this is a panoramic portrait of men and women whose lives are forever altered by the siege. On one side stand the emerging legend Grant, his irascible second William T. Sherman, and the youthful "grunt" Private Fritz Bauer; on the other, the Confederate commanders Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, as well as nineteen-year-old Lucy Spence, a civilian doing her best to survive in the besieged city. By giving voice to their experiences at Vicksburg, A Chain of Thunder vividly evokes a battle whose outcome still reverberates more than 150 years after the cannons fell silent.

Location: Street: 160 Courthouse Sq City: Oxford, Province: Mississippi Postal Code: 38655-3914 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jeff Shaara (Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gods and Generals, Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, No Less Than Victory, Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Rise to Rebellion, Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, The Glorious Cause, The Last Full Measure)

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure–two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize—winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota. (added from Random House)… (more)

Jeff Shaara (Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gods and Generals, Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, No Less Than Victory, Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Rise to Rebellion, Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, The Glorious Cause, The Last Full Measure)

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure–two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize—winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota. (added from Random House)… (more)

Continuing the trilogy that began with A Blaze of Glory, the New York Times-bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America’s Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg. There, in the vaunted “Gibraltar of the Confederacy,” a siege for the ages cemented the reputation of one Union general and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.

Drawing on comprehensive research and his intimate knowledge of the Vicksburg Campaign, Jeff Shaara weaves fiction out of the cloth of historical fact. By giving voice to their experiences at Vicksburg, A Chain of Thunder vividly evokes a battle whose outcome still reverberates more than 150 years after the cannons fell silent.

Shaara is the author among others of The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with the Pulitzer Prize--winning classic The Killer Angels, written by his father, Michael Shaara.

Support: The Elson Lectures feature scholarly addresses by our nation’s prominent historians and are made possible with generous funding from Ambassador and Mrs. Edward Elson. (jasbro)… (more)

Jeff Shaara (Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gods and Generals, Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, No Less Than Victory, Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Rise to Rebellion, Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, The Glorious Cause, The Last Full Measure)

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure–two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize—winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota. (added from Random House)… (more)

Jeff Shaara (Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Gods and Generals, Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, No Less Than Victory, Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, Rise to Rebellion, Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields, A Novel of the American Revolution, The Last Full Measure)

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure–two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize—winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota. (added from Random House)… (more)