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Carried Forward By Hope by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCarried Forward By Hope is the sixth book in the Bregdan Chronicles historical fiction series. As of today, there are 10 books in the series. Make sure you start reading with # 1 – Storm Clouds Rolling In. It's readers like you who have turned the series into a world-wide best-seller. Thank you! Book Description: The Civil War has ended, but the struggle to rebuild America is just beginning...Categorized as:
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![On To Richmond by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye]()
On To Richmond by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBurdened with the responsibility of running an entire plantation, Carrie Cromwell fights to understand the forces tearing her beloved country apart. She battles her own internal war; tied to the South by tradition, but pulled North by the emotions of her heart...Categorized as:
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![The Scalawags by C.J. Petit]()
The Scalawags by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnion Army sergeant Sam Walker returns home to Iowa after leaving a prisoner of war camp, only to discover that his sweetheart has married his brother. He heads down to Mulberry, Texas, to keep a promise to his fallen Union army brother-in-arms, Joe Farrell, to make sure that his family is safe...Categorized as:
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![STRIKE: A Novel of the Battle of Midway by Craig DiLouie]()
STRIKE: A Novel of the Battle of Midway by Craig DiLouie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a lifelong dream of flight takes him into military service, Ensign Harry Hartmann reports for duty at Pearl Harbor. He’s a “nugget,” a dive bomber pilot about to start his first deployment aboard the USS Enterprise.Hell rains from the skies as the Japanese launch a devastating surprise attack that forces America into a bloody, global war... -
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![Together Is All We Need by Michael R. Phillips]()
Together Is All We Need by Michael R. Phillips
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFollowing the Civil War, Katie, the daughter of a plantation owner, and Mayme, a young slave, formed an unlikely partnership. Despite the odds against them, they've managed to hang onto their friendship--and the plantation--while hiding the fact that they are war orphans. Through sheer grit, determination and faith, they've sheltered others, battled threats and faced danger...Categorized as:
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![North and South by John Jakes]()
North and South by John Jakes
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsPart history, part novel, this book chronicles two great American dynasties over three generations. Though brought together in a friendship that neither jealousy nor violence could shatter, the Hazards and the Mains are torn apart by the storm of events that has divided the nation...Categorized as:
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![Carrhae: 4 by Peter Darman]()
Carrhae: 4 by Peter Darman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘Carrhae’ is the fourth and final instalment in the Parthian Chronicles, the adventures of King Pacorus of Dura, and follows on from ‘Parthian Vengeance’.The great Parthian Civil War is over, leaving behind an empire exhausted by years of bloodshed. But no sooner have hostilities ended than Armenia, the client state of Rome, declares war on the empire and unleashes its army against Parthia... -
![Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane]()
Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the eve of the Civil War, Eden Day encounters Cabot Murray on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. As they shelter together from a passing thunderstorm, they fall in love. The obstacles to their future are instantly obvious. Hers is a prominent Virginia family, and he is a Yankee newspaperman. Their country is about to split apart, and they will be on opposite sides...Categorized as:
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![Civil War by R.W. Peake]()
Civil War by R.W. Peake
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the second book of the critically acclaimed Marching With Caesar series, Titus Pullus and his friends in the 10th Legion are called on to serve as the agents of change as their general, Gaius Julius Caesar singlehandedly changes the Roman Republic to Empire... -
![Engraved on the Heart by Tara Johnson]()
Engraved on the Heart by Tara Johnson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReluctant debutante Keziah Montgomery lives beneath the weighty expectations of her staunch Confederate family, forced to keep her epilepsy secret for fear of a scandal. As the tensions of the Civil War arrive on their doorstep in Savannah, Keziah sees little cause for balls and courting...Categorized as:
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![Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell]()
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsCaptain Richard Sharpe prepares to lead his men against the army of Napoleon at Talavera in what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. After their cowardly loss of the regiment's colors, the men's resentment toward the upstart Sharpe turns to treachery, and Sharpe must fight to redeem the honor of his regiment. [Sharpe is] a hero in the mold of James Bond...Categorized as:
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![The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara]()
The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLibrarian's note: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg...Categorized as:
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![The Fateful Lightning by Jeff Shaara]()
The Fateful Lightning by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara delivers a riveting new novel about the final chapter of the Civil War in The Fateful Lightning, completing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn...Categorized as:
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![A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton by Michael R. Phillips]()
A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton by Michael R. Phillips
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNow learning to rely on each others' strengths, Mayme and Katie begin an attempt to offer sanctuary to others the war has orphaned or left destitute. Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters...Categorized as:
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![Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr.]()
Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFreeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn South...Categorized as:
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![The Smoke At Dawn by Jeff Shaara]()
The Smoke At Dawn by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the Army of the Cumberland sets the stage for a decisive confrontation at Chattanooga that could determine the outcome of the war. Summer, 1863...Categorized as:
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![Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Four by Christian Cameron]()
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Four by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century... -
![Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Five by Christian Cameron]()
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Five by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.Available exclusively in eBook... -
![Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Three by Christian Cameron]()
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Three by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century... -
![Walking on Water by Rymond Hunter Pyle]()
Walking on Water by Rymond Hunter Pyle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the rivers, canals, and streams of the Mekong Delta the brown water Navy carried the men of the 2nd brigade, 9th Infantry Division to battle along narrow canals and rivers to landings deep in the delta. The sailors came from all over the Navy to do a dangerous job in horrible conditions. Their small boats were heavily armed and armored, but the Viet Cong leaned their weaknesses... -
![The Fire Dream by Franklin Allen Leib]()
The Fire Dream by Franklin Allen Leib
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn epic military novel of soldier's combat in Vietnam This is a sweeping, gut-wrenching portrait of soldiers at war from a man who fought, and saw friends die, in Vietnam. It is a saga of men from all walks of life, thrown together by the arbitrary nature of unrelenting combat of Vietnam, each man in the team is put to the ultimate test-combat... -
![Judgment at Appomattox by Ralph Peters]()
Judgment at Appomattox by Ralph Peters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"History comes alive" (Richard J...Categorized as:
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![The Great Cause by Griff Hosker]()
The Great Cause by Griff Hosker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn thirteenth-century Britain, Gerald Warbow, legendary archer to the king, prepares to pass on the torch … once he’s dealt with William Wallace …Having fought valiantly for Lord – now King – Edward, Gerald Warbow has settled into the life of a country gentleman. He has a comfortable life with a wife he loves and three growing – if occasionally irritating – children... -
![Eternity Between Us by Stephenia H. McGee]()
Eternity Between Us by Stephenia H. McGee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unnatural thunder rumbled through the air, carrying withit not thoughts of rain but of smoke and trepidation... After being forced to use a pistol against invaders, Evelyn Mapleton is no longer the timid girl her extended family expects...Categorized as:
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![Yankee in Atlanta by Jocelyn Green]()
Yankee in Atlanta by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen soldier Caitlin McKae woke up in Atlanta after being wounded in battle, the Georgian doctor who treated her believed Caitlin's only secret was that she had been fighting for the Confederacy disguised as a man. In order to avoid arrest or worse, Caitlin hides her true identity and makes a new life for herself in Atlanta...Categorized as:
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![Storm Clouds Rolling In by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye]()
Storm Clouds Rolling In by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCarrie Cromwell comes of age as the dark clouds of the Civil War swallow the country. Born with a fiery spirit and a strong mind, she finds herself struggling between the common wisdom of the South and the truth she has discovered. The activities of the Underground Railroad and her close friendships with the Cromwell Plantation slaves create difficult choices... -
![The Soldier's Lady by Michael R. Phillips]()
The Soldier's Lady by Michael R. Phillips
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe young women of Rosewood face new challenges--and old enemies--when a wounded black soldier rides into town. Micah Duff is an educated, spiritual man, and even though he and "scatterbrained" Emma are very different, the two soon fall in love. But an ambitious white man who can't afford any skeletons in his closet--or a black son--plans to get rid of Emma and her boy for good...Categorized as:
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![Kemp: The Road to Crécy by Jonathan Lunn]()
Kemp: The Road to Crécy by Jonathan Lunn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn epic Medieval adventure of the Hundred Years WarWhen Martin Kemp joins the English army in order to avoid the hangman, he may just be delaying the inevitable. While he remains hopeful that at least there's the chance for some heroics, the reality is very different... -
![New Moon Rising by Eugenia Price]()
New Moon Rising by Eugenia Price
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSecond Novel in the St. Simons Trilogy.A rich and riveting tale of love, hardship, and the journey for happiness in the war-torn South.In New Moon Rising, Eugenia Price gives us a story of faith and courage that follows the struggle of James Gould's son Horace to find his own place in life. Reaching manhood in the tumultuous years before the Civil War, Horace returns to St... -
![A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara]()
A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERContinuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi...Categorized as:
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![Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara]()
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this stunning, unforgettable novel, Jeff Shaara carries us back thirteen years before the Civil War, when that momentous conflict's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War...Categorized as:
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![All Things New by Lynn Austin]()
All Things New by Lynn Austin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives when they return to their Virginia plantation...Categorized as:
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![The Bloody Ground by Bernard Cornwell, Hayward Morse]()
The Bloody Ground by Bernard Cornwell, Hayward Morse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this, the fourth of the series, Nathaniel Starbuck, the northern preacher's son who fights for the Confederate South, is plunged into the most desperate battle of the Civil War, the fight at Antietam. Replaced as commander of the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck is given command of a punishment battalion, a unit composed of failures, cowards and misfits...Categorized as:
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![Victor's Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer]()
Victor's Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAmerican Legacy Book Awards - Finalist Romance General For fans of Kristen Hannah, Jodi Picoult and Shana Abe, Victor's Blessing offers an interwoven love triangle of passion, torment, betrayal and the most challenging of all human emotions, forgiveness.Victor Gant 6'5",the son of an Osage slave, is an unexpected hero for a Civil War tale. A self-made man he prospers In Ste. Genevieve Missouri... -
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![Love and War by John Jakes]()
Love and War by John Jakes
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe Hazards and the Mains -- the first fatal shot fired at Fort Sumter divided them irrevocably with loyalties more powerful than family ties. The young would clash on the bloody battlefields of Bull Run and Fredericksburg, while in intrigue-ridden Washington and Richmond strong-willed men and beautiful women would defend their principles with their lives.. -
![The Green Hell by J. Scott Payne]()
The Green Hell by J. Scott Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe gritty story of Midwestern unfortunates drawing the shortest stick of World War II. Spearheading General MacArthur’s inept first offensive in New Guinea, Michigan and Wisconsin guardsmen plunged into jungle and malarial swamps, to attack supposedly starved, diseased push-overs. Instead, veteran Japanese outnumbered and outgunned the green GIs... -
![Chase The Wild Pigeons: A novel of the Civil War by John Gschwend]()
Chase The Wild Pigeons: A novel of the Civil War by John Gschwend
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Civil War South in 1863 is desperate and dangerous. For Joe, a 12-year-old boy suddenly alone and 600 miles from home, it's a nightmare come true. This adventure story is a tale of a special friendship that only comes along once in a lifetime... -
![The Wick and The Flame by Hilari T. Cohen]()
The Wick and The Flame by Hilari T. Cohen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt takes a special kind of hero to stand up against the odds...Evie and Albert. Naomi and Judah. Four very different people who join a movement to birth a nation with one thing in common. None of them ever expected to fall in love...After the atrocities of the holocaust, it becomes all too clear that the Jewish people need safe homeland... -
![Valley of the Shadow by Ralph Peters]()
Valley of the Shadow by Ralph Peters
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood.From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, D.C., to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of our Civil War—in mighty battles now all but forgotten...Categorized as:
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![Ever My Love by Gretchen Craig]()
Ever My Love by Gretchen Craig
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the eve of Civil War, the daughter of Southern planters finds her loyalties tested in a magnificent saga of family pride and forbidden love...Brought up amid the luxury of plantation life, Marianne Johnston never questions her sheltered life until, driven by her conscience, she joins the Underground Railroad... -
![The Bright Blue Sky by Max Hennessy]()
The Bright Blue Sky by Max Hennessy
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne day in 1914, a young man took to the air, and a legend was born... Dicken Quinney never forgot that first flight in a fragile contraption of sealing-wax and string, the start of a lifelong obsession with aviation... -
![Faith of Our Fathers: One Nation Under God by N.C. Allen, Nancy Campbell Allen]()
Faith of Our Fathers: One Nation Under God by N.C. Allen, Nancy Campbell Allen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs the Civil War ends, soldiers and civilians alike try to return to the life they once knew. It will not be easy. For the Birminghams, the journey through America’s most tragic conflict has led to loyalties, passions, and losses that will continue to impact their lives forever. For Sarah Birmingham, the devastation of the war and its aftermath has been a deeply humbling experience...Categorized as:
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![Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen]()
Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great “what if” of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and Union Mills, General Robert E. Lee’s attempt to bring the war to a final conclusion by attacking Washington, D.C., fails...Categorized as:
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![Grant Comes East by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen]()
Grant Comes East by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 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...Categorized as:
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![And One Wore Gray by Heather Graham]()
And One Wore Gray by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the sequel to One Wore Blue, the other Cameron brother, Daniel, is bewitched by Callie Michaelson, a wild beauty who hates the South but who could make him forget the horrors of the war...Categorized as:
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![Widow of Gettysburg by Jocelyn Green]()
Widow of Gettysburg by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor all who have suffered great loss of heart, home, health or family; true home and genuine lasting love can be found. When a horrific battle rips through Gettysburg, the farm of Union widow Liberty Holloway is disfigured into a Confederate field hospital, bringing her face to face with unspeakable suffering-and a Confederate scout who awakens her long dormant heart...Categorized as:
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![Faith of Our Fathers: To Make Men Free by N.C. Allen]()
Faith of Our Fathers: To Make Men Free by N.C. Allen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSTATED FIRST PRINTING. Sept.2002 Covenant hardcover, Nancy Campbell Allen (Summer Holiday). Battles rage as passions on the home front fill the heart of every American citizen. The Civil War progresses in tragic intensity as the Birmingham saga continues, two brothers, along with their families and loved ones, divided in their loyalties between North and South...Categorized as:
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![Faith of Our Fathers: Through the Perilous Fight by N.C. Allen, Nancy Campbell Allen]()
Faith of Our Fathers: Through the Perilous Fight by N.C. Allen, Nancy Campbell Allen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War, the moving saga of the Birmingham family continues as the clash between North and South forces generations of family members to examine their personal and political loyalties. After surviving harrowing battles together, cousins Ben and Luke Birmingham are dispatched by the Union army to New York City to quell rioting draft protestors...Categorized as:
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![Annie, Between the States by L.M. Elliott]()
Annie, Between the States by L.M. Elliott
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnnie's home and heart are divided by the Civil War.Annie Sinclair's Virginia home is in the battle path of the Civil War. Her brothers, Laurence and Jamie, fight to defend the South, while Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers. When she develops a romantic connection with a Union Army lieutenant, Annie's view of the war broadens. Then an accusation calls her loyalty into question... -
![Wedded to War by Jocelyn Green]()
Wedded to War by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTending to the army's sick and wounded meant leading a life her mother does not understand and giving up a handsome and approved suitor. Yet Charlotte chooses a life of service over privilege, just as her childhood friend had done when he became a military doctor. She soon discovers that she's combatting more than just the rebellion by becoming a nurse...Categorized as:
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