"A simultaneously stirring and deeply cautionary saga. Another fine historical novel from a new master of the genre."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Shaara relies 'on the history behind the men and their campaigns to tell the tale....The salvaging of [these] episodes from history is ultimiately a patriotic task, deserving of gratitude."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Shaara, as usual, is at his best in action and confrontation and in evoking how it felt to be there."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer