The Roads of War - Cameron, John
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During the Civil War, Lewis McCormack has to return to his regiment's training camp, leaving his wife Eliza to tend to their homestead. Rearing children, surviving a declining economy, and paying the family debts leads to intolerable hurdles and even more difficult decisions. Amid the chaos of war, Lewis just wants to stay alive-to make it back to his family. Meanwhile, Private Davey Morris is detailed as courier and travels through war-torn Pennsylvania to complete his mission, while Private Tandy Strider uses his thirty-day wounded furlough to search for the young prostitute that he has…mehr

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During the Civil War, Lewis McCormack has to return to his regiment's training camp, leaving his wife Eliza to tend to their homestead. Rearing children, surviving a declining economy, and paying the family debts leads to intolerable hurdles and even more difficult decisions. Amid the chaos of war, Lewis just wants to stay alive-to make it back to his family. Meanwhile, Private Davey Morris is detailed as courier and travels through war-torn Pennsylvania to complete his mission, while Private Tandy Strider uses his thirty-day wounded furlough to search for the young prostitute that he has deemed his soulmate. As the war progresses, Lewis realizes that his soul has hardened-and deep inside, he only feels emptiness. Will Lewis make it through the war? And when he returns, in what state will he find his family? Will they even survive? In a raw, realistic narrative, The Roads of War exposes the authenticity of battle-the hardships, the struggle, and the yearning for tranquility. John Cameron weaves a true-to-life quilt of human emotion, universal tribulation-and the power of love.
Autorenporträt
John Cameron grew up in the Sand Hills of North Carolina where many generations of his Scottish-American ancestors lived, spending his summers before college working in tobacco fields. At Davidson College he studied history and went on to attend graduate school at UNC Chapel Hill specializing in 18th century France and the Revolution. Having lived in many states and even France, he is now settled more or less permanently in Norfolk, Virginia where he can look out on the Lafayette River as he writes. John is married and has several children and grandchildren scattered about the globe. When not writing he gathers with friends, watches herons on the river, drinks single malt whiskey and plays music on various four stringed instruments. He considers himself to be a child of the Enlightenment, which remains a statement of the finest hopes and goals for humanity.