Cut off from communication and their only supply line, the Americans learn about their enemy and themselves, as young men witness for the first time the horror of war. As the Americans fight their way inland, both sides understand that the inevitable final conflict will come at the gates and fortified walls of the ancient capital, Mexico City. Obsessed with glory and his place in history, Santa Ana arrogantly underestimates the will and the heart of Scott and his army. Scott leads his troops against the imperious Mexican dictator, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. Lee, a forty-year-old engineer, a dignified, serious man who has never seen combat. They are led by the army's commanding general, Winfield Scott, a heroic veteran of the War of 1812, short tempered, vain, and nostalgic for the glories of his youth. Navy delivers eight thousand soldiers on the beaches of Vera Cruz. Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen years before that momentous conflict, when the Civil War'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. With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels-ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history.
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