Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War

Author: Jeff Shaara

With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels–ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen years before that momentous co….Read More

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