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Summary: Got here backwards, but had a good time!
Review: When an established author gives a blurb to another up-and-coming one, no one imagines that the established author will benefit. But here's a case when he did. I've been a fan of James L. Nelson's sea-faring adventures since the beginning of his "Revolution at Sea" series. I snatched up Nelson's latest book, "Glory in the Name," and was not disappointed. The guy just keeps getting better and better. When I was done, I scanned the blurbs on the book and saw that Bernard Cornwell called it the best Civil War novel he'd ever read. I thought, well, if his judgment is that good let's try him out.Again I was not disappointed. Cornwell's Civil War series is fast and exciting. Some of what the other reviews, here, say are pretty fair. These are full ahead adventures without a lot of heavy characterization. These aren't historical essays disguised as fiction, but really the descendents of the best historical-adventures in pulp fiction of the thirties and forties. I would like to see a Civil War hero from the North someday, but I guess its more interesting for the author to follow the "lost cause" and the underdogs. Of course, with the generalship the North suffered under till Grant came on board, there should be enough suffering and angst for any storyteller. Until then, Bernard Cornwell tells a good tale and writes blurbs for good books.
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