The Damned of Petersburg, Ralph Peters
The Damned of Petersburg, Ralph Peters
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The Damned of Petersburg

Author: Ralph Peters

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 13 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2016

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters returns with the fourth installment in his Boyd Award–winning series on the Civil War.Glory turned grim … and warfare changed forever.From the butchery of the Crater, where stunning success collapsed into a massacre, through near-constant battles fought by heat-stricken soldiers, to the crucial election of 1864, The Damned of Petersburg resurrects the American Civil War’s hard reality, as plumes and sabers gave way to miles of trenches.Amid the slaughter of those fateful months, fabled leaders—Grant and Lee, Winfield Scott Hancock and A. P. Hill—turned for help to rising heroes, Confederates like “Little Billy” Mahone and Wade Hampton, last of the cavaliers, and Union warriors such as the tragedy-stricken Francis Channing Barlow and the fearless Nelson Miles, a general at twenty-four.Ralph Peters does not forget the men in the ranks, the common soldiers who paid the price for the blunders of commanders who would never know their names. In desperate battles now forgotten—such as Deep Bottom, Globe Tavern, and Reams Station—soldiers on both sides were pushed to the last human limits but fought on as their superiors struggled to master a terrible new age of warfare.The Damned of Petersburg revives heroes aplenty, enriching our knowledge of our most terrible war, but above all, this novel is a tribute to the endurance and courage of the American soldier, North and South.

About Ralph Peters

Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Cain at Gettysburg, is a retired US Army officer, a strategist and veteran of the intelligence world, a journalist who appears frequently in broadcast media, and a lifelong traveler with experience in over seventy countries on six continents.

About Peter Berkrot

Peter Berkrot, a forty-year veteran of stage and screen, has voiced over 450 audiobook titles, winning Earphones Awards, a 2012 Audie Award nomination, and a 2016 Audie Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on November 18, 2016

Spares no punches in the graphic depiction of the Battle of Crater. As always, the personal portraits of the actual participants in the war are stellar: Wade Hampton, "Little" Billy Mahone, and Regis de Trobriand -- want to learn more about him. I even like the way he spins the Francis Barlow story......more

Goodreads review by Carol on September 16, 2024

I love this series, but each book is just more of the same. The battle scenes are always brilliantly written. The generals are always hot-tempered, profane, but lovable. They always play hurt, and even in pain they inspire their men. (During the Crater battle there is one scene where an officer just......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on April 12, 2016

The Damned of Petersburg by Ralph Peters is an extraordinary novel taking readers deep into te heart of Civil War. Ralph Peters has masterfully captured each and every detail and organized his writing to relive the memorable moments in history. This is a novel all readers should read no matter what......more

Goodreads review by Art on August 21, 2016

I am a huge fan of Ralph Peters' Civil War novels. His military background gives him an ability to capture the feel of battles and to write about strategies and tactics in an entertaining and understandable way. No one writes a better battle scene. But this is my least favorite of his series to date.......more

Goodreads review by David on February 16, 2021

Extraordinary battle descriptions. Excellent......more

Quotes

“Ralph Peters does it again! You are there in the trenches. You are there in the Crater. You are there in hell with The Damned of Petersburg, yet another brilliant addition to the best series of Civil War novels ever written.” William Martin, New York Times bestselling author

“A superbly detailed retelling of the Civil War confrontations near Petersburg…Peters’ fast-paced novel is entirely a story of men at war, from the quiet, calm, relentless Grant to Lee, aware that slavery had cursed the white South…Rich in detail and rendered with a literary flair, this is magnificent fiction that Civil War buffs will want for their libraries.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Peters’ research is impeccable. His account of life in the trenches is told by the actual participants, from the common soldier to the higher-grade officers. Readers can only feel as if they were participants in that dirty, hot summer of 1864, with death constantly facing them.” Chris Calkins, former National Park Historian at the Petersburg National Battlefield and author of The Appomattox Campaign

“If Thucydides and Tolstoy together were commissioned to write a historical novel about the American Civil War, the result would be something like Ralph Peters’ The Damned ofPetersburg. Combining unflinching Thucydidean realism about warfare with Tolstoyan empathy for humanity, Peters recreates the bloody Petersburg campaign through the eyes and in the words of the men who lived and died during it. Anyone who wants to understand why the Civil War is the defining event in American history should read this deeply researched and beautifully written epic.” Guy MacLean Rogers, author of Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness

“In this excellent historical novel, Ralph Peters has brought to life the desperate fighting that flared around Petersburg and Richmond in the summer and autumn of 1864, the crisis of our Civil War…A must-read for Civil War novice and aficionado alike.” John Horn, author of The Siege of Petersburg

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