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Gone For Soldiers: A Novel Of The Mexican War
Gone For Soldiers A Novel Of The Mexican War Author:Jeff Shaara From the author of GODS AND GENERALS and THE LAST FULL MEASURE comes a tale of the men who helped define the United States. Thirteen years before the Civil War, many who would become leaders on both sides in that war invaded Mexico to chasten what they took to be an over-reaching and arrogant Mexican government and its military chief, Santa Ana... more ». Although it secured the Southwest for a nation fulfilling its "manifest destiny, the Mexican-American war has since faded into oblivion. While most of the future Civil War generals make an appearance, Shaara focuses on the veteran Major-General Winfield Scott and his observant protege, Robert E. Lee. Through the eyes of these two men we observe the politics and travails of war as Lee consciously learns to assume leadership and establishes personal standards, and as observers, we note the qualities that made Lee's choice by and decision for the Confederacy inevitable.« less