A Thirst for War
Author
Raymond Gustavson
Publisher
Gypsy Shadow Publishing Company
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At the start of the American Civil War, Professor John Ulysses Martin of Clarksville, Tennessee and his students march off to face the harsh reality of battlefield combat. As his students die one by one, John questions his lofty convictions and, after losing a leg at Antietam, realizes he has made a fool of himself. He concludes that war is nothing more than the butchery of innocents. During his convalescence at Armory Square Hospital, John makes notes in a pocket Bible of Yankee troops and artillery heading south for an attack on Richmond. Caught spying, he is taken to the Old Capitol Prison to be hanged, but manages a harrowing escape. When he reaches Richmond and turns in his notes, General Hood realizes John's value to the war effort and rewards him with a perilous assignment: destroy the railroad bridge over the Cumberland River at Clarksville, Tennessee.
Reviews
A Young proffessor in his 20's teaches a small group of students at the College in Clarksville Tennessee. Proffessor John would have called himself lucky to be in the field and position he was in at that point in his life if he didn't have an uncontrollable desire to leave and fight the war just like many of his student's have. Havning a physical problem the Army would not pass him, and made his need to serve his country greater. He wanted to prove himself worthy. Like many of charactors in the history books he taught to his students he true wanted to have the glory they had in the heat of a battle. When it all came down to in the end, faceing much more than just the battle in the fields, would he in turn feel the same way when the war came to his home town?
Find out as your eyes become glued to this fantastic novel, and you too feel as if you are one of the charactors with the turn of every page.
Reviewed on 11/21/2010 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Michelle Lichtenfels
