Ralph Peters
Author
Series
Battle hymn cycle volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a reimagining of the pivotal Civil War battle from the perspectives of a Blue Ridge Confederate sergeant, a bitter survivor of the Great Famine in Ireland, and a German political refugee.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Glory turned grim and warfare changed forever. As Grant pinned Lee to Petersburg and Richmond, the Confederacy's stubborn Army of Northern Virginia struggled against a relentless Union behemoth, with breathtaking valor and sacrifice on both sides. That confrontation in the bloody summer and autumn of 1864 shaped the nation that we know today. From the butchery of The Crater, where stunning success collapsed into a massacre, through near-constant battles...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Spring 1981. Vietnam is over, but the repercussions linger. The military strives to recover as society reels from the excesses of the 1970s...In the gritty tale of young men and women torn between the laws of the land and the laws of the heart, a dark journey leads from a moonlit beach in Mexico to mayhem in Iran then back to a country looking for its soul.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Imagines a post-apocalyptic war launched by America in retaliation against Islamic extremists who have used nuclear weapons to destroy Los Angeles, Israel, and parts of Europe, a battle that is complicated by anti-Muslim Christian zealots.
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In Beyond Baghdad, America's most provocative writer on strategy recounts the liberation of Iraq and analyzes its implications for the future of U.S. military strategy and foreign policy. Author Ralph Peters describes future threats at home and abroad, offers startling insights into today's most pressing issues, and highlights global opportunities that lie, unrecognized, within our grasp. Written in his trademark style-powerful, lively, and accessible,...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A stunning terror bombing strikes a research facility in France, a much-admired African-American general is killed in a hit-and-run accident, and Pentagon staff officer John Reynolds finds an old friend, now an influential lobbyist, drunk and fearful. In short order, Reynolds must face a car bombing at his front door, his girlfriend's murder, and the wrath of a retired Green Beret general as scarred as he is inexplicably wealthy. Struggling to behave...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
May 2019.
Language
English
Description
"Vividly recreating one of the most dramatic battles in American history. [This book] brings to life what began as a brilliant, triumphant campaign for the Union forces under 'Fighting Joe' Hooker, only to falter when faced with the genius of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Soldiers in tattered gray bring off an against-all-odds vicotory over a blue-clad force three times their unmber as the Union army struggles with internal rivalries, anti-immigrant...
Author
Series
Battle hymn cycle volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood. From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, D.C., to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of our Civil War--in mighty battles now all but forgotten. The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, breadbasket of the Confederacy and the South's key invasion route...
Author
Series
Battle hymn cycle volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Against the backdrop of the birth of modern warfare and the painful rebirth of the United States, New York Times bestselling novelist Ralph Peters has created a breathtaking narrative that surpasses the drama and intensity of his recent critically acclaimed novel, Cain at Gettysburg. In Hell or Richmond, thirty days of ceaseless carnage are seen through the eyes of a compelling cast, from the Union's Harvard-valedictorian "boy general," Francis Channing...
12) Red Army
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
The tale of the Soviet army's invasion of western Europe told from the perspective of Russian soldiers in combat.
Author
Series
Battle hymn cycle volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A great war nears its end. Robert E. Lee makes a desperate, dramatic gamble. It fails. Ulysses S. Grant moves. Veteran armies clash around Petersburg, Virginia, as Grant seeks to surround Lee and Lee makes a skillful withdrawal in the night. Richmond falls. Each day brings new combat and more casualties, as Lee's exhausted, hungry troops race to preserve the Confederacy. But Grant does not intend to let Lee escape... In one of the most thrilling episodes...