Volunteers for Glory

By A.D. Thorp

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156167477X
• ISBN13: 9781561674770
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Amer Literary Pr
• Length: 553 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

accurate history, highly entertaining, emotionally filled

Growing up in the South, I always looked at the Civil War from the eyes of a Southerner. Thorp has succeeded in moving me beyond North or South to a place where the historical human drama is much greater than one side, indeed greater than a Confederacy or a Union, for it is the essence of a Country. All the characters, with the exception of a few, are real people who actually lived and fought and died in the tragic War Between the States. The men and women of Thorp's novel are people with personalities and families and hopes and fears, just as all of us. I highly recommend this book.

excellent local & civil war history

As a lifelong resident of Frankford & board member of the Historical Society of Frankford I can vouch for the fact that all sites & characters in the book except for the Mulcahy family existed. The regiments & the fate of the men who served in them follows fact. Doctor Thorp has brought to life the section of Philadelphia know as Frankford as it was in the 1860s.