A blaze of glory

In the spring of 1862, the Battle of Shiloh becomes the crucible in which the fate of the American Civil War's Western Theater is decided. Jeff Shaara weaves together the divergent paths of Ulysses S. Grant, the brilliant and ruthless Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the veteran commanders Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard, each fighting for their own side with equal conviction. As the smoke of battle obscures the lines between right and wrong, the novel captures the brutal reality of war and the personal cost of command, told through multiple perspectives that build toward one of the most decisive engagements of the conflict.