God Of War: When I Rode With N. B. Forrest: The Letters Of Henry Wylie: A Novel

by Robert S. Chambers

Book by Robert S. Chambers

293 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1996

Reviews

[Mark Lacy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked up a used copy of Robert S. Chambers' The God of War: When I Rode with N. B. Forrest/The Letters of Henry Wylie, knowing that it was fiction, but thinking I might learn something new, or a different way to think about what my ancestors went through during the Civil War. This "historical interpretation", as the author refers to it, consists of letters written by an imaginary soldier serving under Forrest to his family, describing what he was experiencing. But in skimming the book I realized the soldier writing these letters was not in a position to know many of the details he was sharing with his family. It was as if the letter writer had access to the same books on Forrest as Chambers did when researching his book. So I gave up on it.