Grant Comes East - (Gettysburg Trilogy) by Newt Gingrich & William R Forstchen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The authors create an exciting alternative history of the Civil War in which the Confederates hope to capture the capital and President Lincoln, bring a sympathetic Maryland into the Confederacy, gain European recognition, and force the Union into peace negotiations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Grant Comes East </i>from bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen continues the story of a Confederate victory, examining the great what if of American history: Could Lee have won the Battle of Gettysburg? A Confederate victory, however, would not necessarily mean that the Southern cause has gained its final triumph and a lasting peace. It is from this departure point that the story continues in <i>Grant Comes East</i>, as General Robert E. Lee's marches on Washington, D.C., and launches an assault against one of the largest fortifications in the world. <p/>Beyond a military victory in the field, Lee must also overcome the defiant stand of President Abraham Lincoln, who vows that regardless of the defeat at Gettysburg, his solemn pledge to preserve the Union will be honored at all cost. <p/>At the same time, Lincoln has appointed General Ulysses S. Grant as commander of all Union forces. Grant, fresh from his triumph at Vicksburg, races east, bringing with him his hardened veterans from Mississippi to confront Lee. <p/>What ensues across the next six weeks is a titanic struggle as the surviving Union forces inside the fortifications of Washington fight to hang on, while Grant prepares his counterblow. Spanning the ground from Washington to the banks of the Susquehanna, these factors will come together in a climatic, pivotal struggle.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Ulysses S. Grant is one of my Civil War favorites. I sat down on a weekend morning to read this book and, by night, I was still at it to the last page. Couldn't put it down. This is a very readable story of how President Abraham Lincoln finally put Grant in charge and changed the course of history." --Liz Smith <p/>"Gingrich and Forstchen have produced a very readable entry into the literature of speculative history. It will be interesting, perhaps even thrilling, to see how the military strategy and political maneuvering plays out in the next installment." --<i>Civil War Book Review</i> <p/>"With each book in their ongoing alternate history cycle, Gingrich and Forstchen have gone from strength to strength as storytellers. Unabashedly, this is a work of popular historical fiction; it aspires to entertain, first and foremost, but it has passages of genuine depth and poetry which elevate it above many other specimens of its peculiar sub-genre." --<i>William Trotter, The Charlotte Observer</i> <p/>"Gingrich and Forstchen portray icons like Grant and Lee as very real humans, beset with very real problems demanding decisions... This second volume is every bit as good as the first." --<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i> <p/>"An exciting alternative history of the Civil War. Character depictions are vivid, detailed, and insightful. One of the best novels of the Civil War to appear in recent years." --<i>Publishers Weekly (starred)</i> <p/>"A good yarn. The authors provide apt historically plausible detail to give substance to the premise. Colorful and imaginative historical fiction." --<i>Washington Times</i> <p/>"What the authors come up with is as rivetingly plausible as what they devised in the previous novel. Notably original." --<i>Booklist</i> <p/>"The Gingrich and Forstchen 'what-if' take on the Civil War gathers some steam. The battle scenes continue war-lovingly rendered." --<i>Kirkus</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>NEWT GINGRICH, </b> front-running Republican primary candidate for the 2012 Presidential Election, former Speaker of the House, bestselling author of <i>Gettysburg</i> and <i>Pearl Harbor</i>, the longest serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting Course for Major Generals at Air University, and an honorary Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at the National Defense University. He resides in Virginia with his wife, Callista, with whom he hosts and produces documentaries, including A City Upon A Hill. <p/><b>Dr. William R. Forstchen</b> is the author of more than thirty books, including historical fiction, science fiction, young adult novels, and traditional historical research. He holds a Ph.D. with a specialization in military history from Purdue University and is an associate professor of history at Montreat College in North Carolina. Forstchen's doctoral dissertation was a first-of-its-kind study about the mobilization, deployment, and combat experiences of an African-American regiment from the Midwest during the Civil War.</p>
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