Jeffry Wert
The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle
Airdate: 08/04/2022 @ 3:30 pm CST
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Jeffry Wert, The Heart of Hell, 1st ed., Signed on Bookplate
$37.50
Show Info
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In Heart of Hell, Jeffry Wert draws on the personal narratives of Union and Confederate troops who survived the fight to offer a gripping story of Civil War combat at its most difficult. Wert’s harrowing tale reminds us that the war’s story, often told through its commanders and campaigns, truly belonged to the common soldier.
Bjorn Skaptason holds a M.A. in history from Loyola University Chicago.
He has published essays on Ambrose Bierce at Shiloh for the Ambrose Bierce Project Journal, on the United States Colored Troops in the campaign and battle of Brice’s Crossroads for the West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, and in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society on The Chicago Light Artillery.
A dealer in antiquarian books, Bjorn produces and hosts A House Divided, a live book discussion program streamed from Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc. in Chicago.
