Bernard Cornwell delivers, and his Starbuck Chronicles are no exception. They're right up there with Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels. I didn't much enjoy Gingrich's Gettysburg, probably because it's an alternate history in which the Battle of Gettysburg lasted only a day before Robert E. Lee wised up and shifted the battle elsewhere to win it. E.L. Doctorow, whom I discovered last year when dipping my toes into American westerns, delivers a fantastic and riveting account of Sherman's March to the Sea. Having wrapped up a gauntlet of historical fiction about the American Civil War, it's time to return to the Napoleonic Wars with some Patrick O'Brian and (of course) Bernard Cornwell.
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