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Help! on Gordon Rhea Books.
I am the type of reader who thinks that a battle as confused as the Wilderness was to the soldiers themselves, cannot possibly easily digested by a person like me. I am more comfortable with the broader views of the war and bios and memoirs of the principles.
So I usually get confused by the movements of troops, etc. in these individual battles, and that takes away from the bigger picture.
I also am more a fan of the Foote/Catton type narrative than the more prosaic, less lyrical type (Allan Nevins, for instance) treatment.
But I did much enjoy Sears' 'Gettysburg'.
So, help me here (i'm serious).
Will I enjoy Rhea, or flounder in the detail which I suspect might defeat me in these books?
A true question. I am clueless about which regiments, brigades, companies, are which and it's not particulary important to me. I like the flow of the story and the characters most.
So if you you tell me these books are not for me I will believe you Rhea fans. I have a mountain of books to get thru and can use any discouragement I can find not to buy more and add to the mountain. Tell me.
But if you are not definite about it, please suggest the most interesting of these Rhea Grant 'end-it' campaign series. And I'll try one.
Thanks.
I am the type of reader who thinks that a battle as confused as the Wilderness was to the soldiers themselves, cannot possibly easily digested by a person like me. I am more comfortable with the broader views of the war and bios and memoirs of the principles.
So I usually get confused by the movements of troops, etc. in these individual battles, and that takes away from the bigger picture.
I also am more a fan of the Foote/Catton type narrative than the more prosaic, less lyrical type (Allan Nevins, for instance) treatment.
But I did much enjoy Sears' 'Gettysburg'.
So, help me here (i'm serious).
Will I enjoy Rhea, or flounder in the detail which I suspect might defeat me in these books?
A true question. I am clueless about which regiments, brigades, companies, are which and it's not particulary important to me. I like the flow of the story and the characters most.
So if you you tell me these books are not for me I will believe you Rhea fans. I have a mountain of books to get thru and can use any discouragement I can find not to buy more and add to the mountain. Tell me.
But if you are not definite about it, please suggest the most interesting of these Rhea Grant 'end-it' campaign series. And I'll try one.
Thanks.