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[Howard Bahr] á The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War à Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War But when a childhood friend asks him to accompany her to Franklin, Tennessee, to recover the bodies of her father and brother from the battlefield where they died, Cass cannot refuse. Before long the group has assembled on the haunted ground of Franklin, where past and present--the legacy of war and the narrow hope of redemption--will draw each of them to a painful reckoning.. After returning from the Civil War, Cass Wakefield means to live out the rest of his days in his hometown in Mississippi
| Title | : | The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312426933 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-04 |
| Language | : | English |
"Another Excellent Civil War novel by Howard Bahr" according to Chris. If Howard Bahr writes about the Civil War I'm there. Bahr really knows how to capture the feeling of the tragedy that was the American Civil War. I was a huge fan of 'The Black Flower' and have read it many times since it was released. His characters were so heartbreaking and the s. Raymond H. Mullen said Another Great One. Just as in 'The Black Flower' Howard Bahr brings to the reader the horrors of the Civil War better than any author I can think of. He uses his characters in a way that you feel you actually know them and feel their pain. The setting again is the "Battle of Franklin' at Franklin, Te. "The Written War" according to Kenneth W. Noe. Daniel Aaron, in The Unwritten War, lamented that the Civil War never produced a great work of fiction until, possibly, William Faulkner's works. If anyone ever updates that book, the author may come to a happier conclusion with the works of Howard Bahr. Lost in the clamor over Cha
Bahr (The Black Flower) moves back and forth between the tattered post-Reconstruction South and the war. He describes the effect of weapons on flesh in gruesome detail and brings to life a long-gone era with its strange smells, foods, fashions and principles. Though his uneducated characters often seem a little too articulate, their insights are excellent. As they travel north, Cass's memories return with painful vividness, culminating as he walks over the scene of his army's disastrous defeat. Lee, and ended, badly, at the battle
But when a childhood friend asks him to accompany her to Franklin, Tennessee, to recover the bodies of her father and brother from the battlefield where they died, Cass cannot refuse. Before long the group has assembled on the haunted ground of Franklin, where past and present--the legacy of war and the narrow hope of redemption--will draw each of them to a painful reckoning.. After returning from the Civil War, Cass Wakefield means to live out the rest of his days in his hometown in Mississippi. As they make their way north in the company of two of Cass's brothers-in-arms, memories of the war emerge with overwhelming vividness
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