Tag: civil war fiction

  • Fiction Review:The Wake of the Woonsocket by Les Eldridge

    The Wake of the Woonsocket: The Continuing Adventures of Rory Dunbrody, CSN and Tobias St. John, USN by Les Eldridge, ISBN 978-0-9794847-1-1, Leeward Coast Press-Softocver-$18.95 I must first admit that I have not read the first two installments of Lee Eldridge’s planned quartet of Civil War sea novels, so chronologically I am coming into the […]

  • Review: The Disagreement by Nick Taylor

    The Disagreement: A Novel by Nick Taylor, ISBN 978-1416550655, Simon & Schuster, © 2008, 360 Pages – Hardcover (7×10) – $24.95 It was a time of metamorphosis, when civilians became soldiers, boys changed into men, and the enslaved set free. A nation torn asunder, North from South, peacetime transformed into a time of war, the innocence […]

  • Request for Another Civil War Fiction Reviewer

    UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who replied.  TOCWOC now has enough reviewers of historical fiction. Readers, do any of you routinely read and enjoy Civil War-based historical fiction? I ask because I am getting A LOT of requests at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog to review Civil War historical fiction.  Author Jessica James reviews fiction […]

  • Views on historical (Civil War) fiction

    Since I haven’t had time to read any historical fiction lately, and therefore don’t have any reviews to write, I thought I’d post some questions to you guys out there who turn up your noses at the historical fiction genre. Frankly, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of positive reviews my novel has received from […]

  • Welcome Jessica James to TOCWOC!

    That was quick!  My request for a Civil War fiction reviewer has already been answered.  Jessica James, author of the award-winning Civil War novel Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia and an avid reader of Civil War fiction, has graciously agreed to try her hand as TOCWOC’s unoffical Civil War […]

  • Civil War Fiction: Worth Reading?

    I have started to receive quite a few requests to review Civil War fiction here at the ol’ Civil War blog.  The requests intrigue me and I have often thought about expanding the scope of my posts here at TOCWOC to include fiction as well as non-fiction.  However, my standard response from day one has […]