Grant Comes East - Softcover

"With each book in their ongoing alternate history cycle, Gingrich and Forstchen have gone from strength to strength as storytellers. Unabashedly, this is a work of popular historical fiction; it aspires to entertain, first and foremost, but it has passages of genuine depth and poetry that elevate it above many other specimens of its peculiar subgenre."--"Charlotte Observer" "An exciting alternative history of the Civil War. Character depictions are vivid, detailed and insightful."--"Publishers Weekly" "Gingrich and Forstchen have produced a very readable entry into the literature of speculative history. It will be interesting, perhaps even thrilling, to see how the military strategy and political maneuvering plays out in the next installment."--"Civil War Book Review" "" "An exciting alternative history of the Civil War. Character depictions are vivid, detailed, and insightful. One of the best novels of the Civil War to appear in recent years."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred reviews) "A good yarn. The authors provide apt historically plausible detail to give substance to the premise. Colorful and imaginative historical fiction."--"Washington"" Times" "What the authors come up with is as rivetingly plausible as what they devised in the previous novel. Notably original."--"Booklist" "The Gingrich and Forstchen 'what-if' take on the Civil War gathers some steam. The battle scenes continue war-lovingly rendered."--"Kirkus Reviews" " With each book in their ongoing alternate history cycle, Gingrich and Forstchen have gone from strength to strength as storytellers. Unabashedly, this is a work of popular historical fiction; it aspires to entertain, first and foremost, but it has passages of genuine depth and poetry that elevate it above many other specimens of its peculiar subgenre." -- "Charlotte Observer" " An exciting alternative history of the Civil War. Character depictions are vivid, detailed and insightful." -- "Publishers Weekly" " Gingrich and Forstchen have produced a very readable entry into the literature of speculative history. It will be interesting, perhaps even thrilling, to see how the military strategy and political maneuvering plays out in the next installment." -- "Civil War Book Review" "" "An exciting alternative history of the Civil War. Character depictions are vivid, detailed, and insightful. One of the best novels of the Civil War to appear in recent years."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred reviews) "A good yarn. The authors provide apt historically plausible detail to give substance to the premise. Colorful and imaginative historical fiction."--"Washington"" Times" "What the authors come up with is as rivetingly plausible as what they devised in the previous novel. Notably original."-- "Booklist" "The Gingrich and Forstchen 'what-if' take on the Civil War gathers some steam. The battle scenes continue war-lovingly rendered."-- "Kirkus Reviews"

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF GETTYSBURG--
A NOVEL ABOUT THE CHOICES THAT SHAPED A WAR--
AND CHANGED HISTORY ITSELF...

GRANT COMES EAST
In their runaway bestseller Gettysburg, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen answered the Civil War's ultimate hypothetical question: What if Lee's army had won the victory within its grasp at Gettysburg in 1863? Now, through the same extraordinary research and brilliant character studies, we take the next step of a provocative journey: The Army of Northern Virginia is poised to invade Washington, D.C.. A besieged Lincoln calls on a general with a drinking problem to save the Union. And in the East, Ulysses Grant faces a storm of calamity and rivalry--and a war on the verge of being lost...

In this extraordinary book, the battlefront and home fronts come alive through the eyes of ordinary soldiers and such little known characters as General Herman Haupt, commander of the U.S. railroads, and the politician turned soldier General Dan Sickles--a political arch-enemy of Grant's. As the best of plans are undone, and every strategy countered by another, GRANT COMES EAST builds to a stunning portrait of the war that was--and the war that might have been...

"Colorful and imaginative historical fiction."
--Washington Times

"Passages of genuine depth and poetry."--The Charlotte Observer