"The Smoke of Summer" is a Northern "Gone with the Wind" - without flapdoodle or escapism. It tells the story of a bloody coming of age in a seacoast town. Harrah tirelessly pursues peace. Willacassa becomes one of Dorothea Dix's nurses. Eliot Irons tastes first blood at Bull Run. Henry Sawyer fights all the way to Brandy Station. By capturing the true contemporary mood of the Civil War, this novel emerges as a great human drama.
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"The Smoke of Summer" is a Northern "Gone with the Wind" - without flapdoodle or escapism. It tells the story of a bloody coming of age in a seacoast town. Harrah tirelessly pursues peace. Willacassa becomes one of Dorothea Dix's nurses. Eliot Irons tastes first blood at Bull Run. Henry Sawyer fights all the way to Brandy Station. By capturing the true contemporary mood of the Civil War, this novel emerges as a great human drama.
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