Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War

jeff shaara

In this stunning, unforgettable novel, Jeff Shaara carries us back thirteen years before the Civil War, when that momentous conflict's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.

Genres historical fictionfictionwarmilitary fictionhistoricalamerican historycivil warmilitary history19th centurynovels

424 pages, Paperback

First published May 2,2000

This edition

Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Published: July 3, 2001 by Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345427519
ASIN: 0345427513
Language: English

About the author

jeff shaara

JEFF SHAARA is the award-winning, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of seventeen novels, including Rise to Rebellion and The Rising Tide, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure—two novels that complete his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Killer Angels. Shaara was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.