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Also by Winston Groom:

The Generals, November 2015
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Shiloh 1862, March 2012
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Gump & Company, June 2010
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Vicksburg, 1863, April 2009
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Patriotic Fire, May 2007
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1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls, April 2006
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Shrouds Of Glory, March 2004
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A Storm In Flanders, April 2003
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Forrest Gump, October 2002
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VICKSBURG, 1863
By: Winston Groom

A riveting history of the battle that permanently turned the tide of the Civil War.

Knopf
April 2009
On Sale: April 7, 2009
496 pages
ISBN: 0307264254
EAN: 9780307264251
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History

While Gettysburg is better known, Winston Groom makes clear in this engrossing narrative that Vicksburg was the more important battle from a strategic point of view.

Re-creating the epic campaign that culminated at Vicksburg, Groom details the arduous struggle by the Union to gain control of the Mississippi River valley and to divide the Confederacy in two. He takes us back to 1861, when Lincoln chooses Ulysses S. Grant—seen at the time as a mediocre general with a drinking problem—to lead the Union army south from Illinois.

We follow Grant and his troops as they fight one campaign after another, including the famous engagements at Forts Henry and Donelson and the bloodbath at Shiloh, until, after almost a year, they close in on Vicksburg. We witness Grant’s seven long months of battle against the determined Confederate army, and the many failed Union attempts to take Vicksburg, during which thousands of soldiers on both sides would be buried and, ultimately, the fate of the Confederacy would be sealed. As Groom recounts this landmark confrontation, he brings the participants to life. We see Grant in all his grim determination, the feistiness of William Tecumseh Sherman, and the pride and intransigence of Confederate leaders from Jefferson Davis and General Joseph E. Johnston to General John C. Pemberton, the Philadelphia-born Rebel who commanded at Vicksburg and took the blame for losing.

A first-rate work of military history and an essential contribution to our understanding of the Civil War.

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