Blue-Gray Mist and a Black Dawn

By Rod Rogers

Book Overview

Blue-Gray Mist and a Black Dawn is a novel about people caught in a place and a time. Like a huge omnipotent beast, the American Civil War grasped the country by its shoulders and shook it violently,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595129250
• ISBN13: 9780595129256
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A page turner!

It is extremely difficult to write an historical fiction that is both entertaining and vivid and makes you care about the characters. Rod Rogers has succeeded on all counts. I have already cast who should play the leads in the movie version! Over the past 16 years,I have interviewed many authors on my television show. Rod Rogers was a hit with my viewers as I know his book will be a hit with anyone who reads it.Boo SheppardProducer/HostTime Warner's "Orangeburg Inside/Out"

Powerful imagery, and an action packed but very human story.

This book is great! The story has so many powerful characters, all struggling to understand their place and purpose in a war that seemed to have none. In this book you will find the best and the worst of human nature, sometimes embodied in the same person. It details the paradox in which good men find themselves, struggling with their own beliefs, as they are force to brutalize their enemy. Further, it reveals great insights into the class system that has been so much a part of western civilization, and is still a guiding force in our lives today.Rod Rogers paints such a complete picture of the people and the time in history, one almost feels transported back to become part of the story. In many ways, I could relate to the characters, especially Nathan Evens. This book would make a great movie.

A fascinating look at America through it's own civil war

As much a sociological commentary as a historical novel, The Blue-Grey Mist and a Black Dawn puts us face to face with ourselves as we look back upon our relatively recent past. The opening chapter depicts a detailed battle scene that might leave the reader believing that the book will focus primarily on the military actions of the American Civil War. What this chapter does, however, is set the stage for a fascinating story about Americans - men and woman with vastly different ideologies, motivations, loyalties and backgrounds. This book serves to educate us of the particular horrors of this war and the seemingly endless complications involved, and it also offers deep insight into the complexity of the conflict. For example, while history books might discuss the generals, presidents and famous battles between two armies, this book describes the fighting within each army between military ideology and political and financial agendas, the precarious position that black people on both sides of the line found themselves in, and the role of Irish immigrants who found the only decent paying job in America they could find was joining the Union army. Because this story is based on our own history, it hits very close to home, and helps us realize the hopelessness and tragedy of humanity declaring war upon itself. By reading this account of the most fascinating and horrifying period our country has known, one begins to see the connections between all of the characters, and more significantly, between all of us. In this highly enjoyable work of fiction, we can vividly see our past, our present, and the challenges of our future.

Civil War Drama at it's Best

Blue-Gray Mist has to be one of the bet books I have ever read involving the Civil War. Not only does Rod Rogers create realistic battle scenes, but he vividly portrays the life of the soldier, Union and Confederate, the daily hardships and best of all the eye opening conflicts from within.I can only hope that others will read this book, not just for it's historical accuracies, but for it's objective arguments that put into perspective the heart and soul behind the war, tearing away the politically correct facade that has been constructed over the past century deceiving us by covering the truth of that era and the political motivations behind the war.Rod Rogers style reaches out and grabs you, bringing you into the mind of the characters, both fictional and real, with great skill. This book is exciting, intriguing and yet tragic.