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Title: A Great Read but could have been better.
Review: Jeff Shaara's new novel''Gone for Soldiers'' is a great read but at the same time inferior to His two previous novels. This is partly because the Civil War is missing.Also with the exception of Winfield Scott who is masterfully portrayed here the other characters are not as fully developed as they might be. Robert E. Lee comes off like a teen-ager just out of West Point when in reality He was almost 40 and a twenty year veteran of the Corps of Engineers. Also some of the other characters simply cry out for more attention especially Grant, Longstreet, Beauregard, Pickett etc. But despite these criticisms this is a basically good novel and it has apparently led to some serious study of the Mexican war.An episode in our history that most Americans know very little about.I eagerly await Jeff Shaara's next novel.
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