Tag: civil war fiction
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Fiction Review:The Wake of the Woonsocket by Les Eldridge
The Wake of the Woonsocket: The Continuing Adventures of Rory Dunbrody, CSN and Tobias St. John, USN by Les Eldridge, ISBN 978-0-9794847-1-1, Leeward Coast Press-Softocver-$18.95 I must first admit that I have not read the first two installments of Lee Eldridge’s planned quartet of Civil War sea novels, so chronologically I am coming into the […]
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Review: The Disagreement by Nick Taylor
The Disagreement: A Novel by Nick Taylor, ISBN 978-1416550655, Simon & Schuster, © 2008, 360 Pages – Hardcover (7×10) – $24.95 It was a time of metamorphosis, when civilians became soldiers, boys changed into men, and the enslaved set free. A nation torn asunder, North from South, peacetime transformed into a time of war, the innocence […]
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Request for Another Civil War Fiction Reviewer
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who replied. TOCWOC now has enough reviewers of historical fiction. Readers, do any of you routinely read and enjoy Civil War-based historical fiction? I ask because I am getting A LOT of requests at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog to review Civil War historical fiction. Author Jessica James reviews fiction […]
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Views on historical (Civil War) fiction
Since I haven’t had time to read any historical fiction lately, and therefore don’t have any reviews to write, I thought I’d post some questions to you guys out there who turn up your noses at the historical fiction genre. Frankly, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of positive reviews my novel has received from […]
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Welcome Jessica James to TOCWOC!
That was quick! My request for a Civil War fiction reviewer has already been answered. Jessica James, author of the award-winning Civil War novel Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia and an avid reader of Civil War fiction, has graciously agreed to try her hand as TOCWOC’s unoffical Civil War […]