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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Sequel to The Flags of War. This book sees Sunday fighting in the famous Robert Shaw all black regiment (Glory is the movie they made about it) surviving and being sent back to the South to work as a slave. (He is seen as being stupid because he has no tongue and cannot talk). Nate is also back in the South, disillusioned and angry and fighting for a cause he does not believe. Walt meanwhile, has been thrown into an officer's prison despite not being an officer and is in the process of tunneling out. The three will meet again but will one betray the other two? no reviews | add a review
This novel by John Wilson, the sequel to The Flags of War, continues the adventures of two cousins, Walt and Nate McGregor, and of Sunday, the former slave on Nate's father's plantation. They have survived the carnage at Shiloh. But the war rages on. Nate returns to the family plantation to find it in ruins. In despair he turns back to the only life he knows -- the army. Meanwhile, Walt and Sunday re-enlist to fight for their beliefs, no matter how great the danger. The three young men meet again at the notorious Libby prison in Virginia: Nate as a guard, Sunday as a slave and Walt as a prisoner. Their grim reunion at Libby -- where prison walls divide them -- highlights the complexity of a war that tore a nation apart. Can the three battle-scarred soldiers hope for anything more than survival? No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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