A Blaze of Glory A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh

In April of 1862, Major General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union forces led his troops deep into Tennessee, setting up camp around a small log church called Shiloh. On the morning of April 6th, Confederate forces led by Generals Johnston and Beauregard launched a surprise attack on the Union Army encampment to prevent the Union advance into northern Mississippi. Though the Confederates held the advantage for most of the first day, Union reinforcements arrived as evening came and launched a counterattack on the morning of April 7th, successfully forcing the Confederates to retreat and ending what had become one of the bloodiest battles on American soil to date.

Praise for Jeff Shaara's previous books:

"Jeff Shaara [is] one of the grand masters of military fiction." --BookPage

"Shaara's books, as a whole, have a triumphal ring...They are paeans to the American fighting man."--Los Angeles Times

"Magnificent...intense, compelling, and thoroughly researched." --Library Journal

"Pounding with fierce action and human drama, and packed with accurately rendered history." --St. Petersburg Times

"[A] sprawling tale thoroughly researched and told with meticulous detail...All that's missing is the smell of gunpowder." --MSNBC.com

"[Shaara] breathes life into military history."--Pensacola News Journal

"While battles may be enough for military buffs, it's the dialogue and thoughts of Shaara's characters that make the book a narrative success."--Bookpage

"Shaara has created human beings of the myths and cold facts."--St. Petersburg Times

"Jeff Shaara has again demonstrated that rarest of writing gifts, making literature read like history and history read like literature."--Joseph E. Perisco, author of Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour