Review: A Blaze of Glory by Jeff Shaara
By the time I was two hundred pages into Jeff Shaara’s new novel-roughly halfway-I wondered how an author could write so much and say so little.
It picked up, thankfully. I wouldn’t have known that, though, had I not forced myself to stick with it.
I had high hopes for A Blaze of Glory, which tells the story of the battle of Shiloh. The Western Theater gets ignored so much that I was glad a writer in Shaara’s league was going to give it some attention. A Blaze of Glory will be the first in a trilogy that will cover Vicksburg and then “the final chapter of the war in Georgia and the Carolinas” (apparently Chickamauga and Chattanooga don’t matter, not to say anything of Stones River).
Read more, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.
It picked up, thankfully. I wouldn’t have known that, though, had I not forced myself to stick with it.
I had high hopes for A Blaze of Glory, which tells the story of the battle of Shiloh. The Western Theater gets ignored so much that I was glad a writer in Shaara’s league was going to give it some attention. A Blaze of Glory will be the first in a trilogy that will cover Vicksburg and then “the final chapter of the war in Georgia and the Carolinas” (apparently Chickamauga and Chattanooga don’t matter, not to say anything of Stones River).
Read more, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.