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Title	:	Confederates
Author	:	Thomas Keneally
Book Format	:	Unknown Binding
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 427 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1980 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. American History. American Civil War. Military History. Civil War

Confederates

Thomas Keneally

Unknown Binding | Pages: 427 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 699 Users | 62 Reviews

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This must be one of the best things Keneally has ever done and how it avoided winning the Booker is simply mesmerizing. This Australian author really has no right to go about writing on such a closely-studied and well-documented theme as the American Civil War and the various side issues that went along with it. I suppose that's why I stared at the spine of this book as it sat on a shelf in my library for year after year, without ever opening it. Yet it has proven one of the more delectable pieces of writing of the past ten years, the more so for being such an "unlikely find." Whatever possessed this Aussie to tackle such a subject and how did he settle on this method. For Keneally takes us on the road through Manassas and Bull Run and, as we know, onto Appotomax, although this particular narrative stops short of that final episode. He leads us through soldier's fields, some filled with the detritus of a southern army being overpowered only by a lack of resources, some filled with these same good folk, but now in the innumerable pieces that cannon and sustained breech-loading fire leave behind. He takes us in close to the generals, gives us some insight into the vast movements, both political and religious, that were swaying these mighty armies back and forth across the map of Old Virginny, and even shows us something of what the common soldiery were, perforce, leaving behind at home.

It's an uncanny tale, cannily related by a gifted writer and storyteller at the top of his mark. If you can stomach some gruesome details along the way, you will not be one ounce disappointed by this book. It's masterful.

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Original Title:	Confederates
ISBN:	0060122994 (ISBN13: 9780060122997)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1979)

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Ratings: 4.02 From 699 Users | 62 Reviews

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Growing up I was fascinated by the Civil War. We went to battlefields on family vacations, and I used to read a lot of civil war stories. And then I hit a wall. Maybe it was going to college in South Carolina where the Civil War was referred to as "The War of Southern Succession", maybe it was that old History professor who gave me a B in the course on the Civil War, despite my having a high A average, and discovered that the professor was still fighting the war between the states and being from

As good as fiction can be about this awful war, particularly the common men fighting a useless war they never understood. On a par with All Quiet on the Western Front. Beautiful and sad and awful. No sense of glory., no sense of the worth of the pitiful cause. But a heartfelt study of the best and worst of each of us caught in an insane river of destructio

A novel with several independent stories occurring simultaneously doesn't always work but that's not the case here. I thought each story could have been a book in and of themselves but Thomas Keneally again worked his magic (as he did in Schindler's List). From a foot weary Confederate soldier fighting beside a man that had a brief affair with his wife, to Union spies, to a philandering Colonel looking for salvation the tales carried me through at a frantic pace. The horrors of the Civil War and

The War between the states in America is probably one of the most written about events in history, but this adds a human dimension that is sometimes lost in other novels that give an overall view of the whole war. Here we have a very close look at some of the participants, including Stonewall Jackson, and get an insight into what it felt like at a personal level: the daily difficulties, mental anquish, confusion and uncertainty.Keneally takes a short period in summer 1862 leading up to and

This must be one of the best things Keneally has ever done and how it avoided winning the Booker is simply mesmerizing. This Australian author really has no right to go about writing on such a closely-studied and well-documented theme as the American Civil War and the various side issues that went along with it. I suppose that's why I stared at the spine of this book as it sat on a shelf in my library for year after year, without ever opening it. Yet it has proven one of the more delectable

This is a wonderful, well-researched, moving book about Stonewall Jacksons brigade. Its written from a personal viewpoint, detailing the hopes and fears of a handful of humans acting like humans. It made me want to weep, considering the horror and futility of war. So much gore. So much destruction. War should be reserved for only the most extreme cases, not to satisfy the rhetoric of politicians or the greed of arms makers.

This must be one of the best things Keneally has ever done and how it avoided winning the Booker is simply mesmerizing. This Australian author really has no right to go about writing on such a closely-studied and well-documented theme as the American Civil War and the various side issues that went along with it. I suppose that's why I stared at the spine of this book as it sat on a shelf in my library for year after year, without ever opening it. Yet it has proven one of the more delectable