A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg

These books by Jeff kept me engaged all the way through

Another exciting installment in Jeff Shaara's account of the Civil War's Western Theater, A Chain of Thunder concentrate's on Ulysses Grant's brilliant Vicksburg Campaign and, like his other historical fiction novels in these series, is related through the eyes of several of the individual participants, both North and South, military and civilian. And he does so with an expertise that turns what might be a burdensome challenge to some writers into a piece of art the flows expertly through the campaign. Whether viewing the action through Northern eyes or Southern eyes Jeff Shaara does so without revealing the slightest hint of favoritism in his treatment of the characters. Historical fiction at its finest.