Theory of War
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0449909131 / Publisher: Ballantine Books, April 1994
There are thousands of stories of American slaves after the Civil War, portraying years of brutal servitude, escapes to freedom, and the impact on children and grandchildren--but Jonathan Carrick's story is unusual because he is white. Reprint.
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"[A] vivid historical novel--part poignant biographical fiction, part raw frontier epic."TIMETaking flight from an extraordinary real-life family history, here is a riveting novel of how the past lives on, generation after generation. THEORY OF WAR is the richly imagined story of one woman's journey into what a distant relation might have experienced--and how echoes of his suffering haunt his descendents to this day.
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