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    <body><![CDATA[Holy cow, what a book! It starts off a slow burn, but turns downright harrowing toward the end (I couldn't put it down). This is not the same old tired Civil War story recycled in a lot of other books; the characters are painfully real, and their circumstances are unlike any I've seen in any other fiction. No tired retread of battles, hardtack and politics, no Southern apologetic, no kindly woman who takes in stray soldiers and falls in love ~ all those crummy tropes find no foothold here at all: this is an end to the war that's brutal, human, and appalling in its humanness. <br/><br/>I came across this book by pure happenstanc. It was mentioned somewhere that Stephen King was a fan, so I took a gamble and ordered it not knowing anything about it. I'll definitely be looking for some of Robertson's other books now ~ it's just a pity they are all out of print.<br/><br/>Not for the faint of heart, Robertson doesn't shy from the baser instincts of people trapped between wanting to die and a desperation to survive. There are only a handful of books I say I wish I had written. This one joins them.]]></body>
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