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Epley’s well-researched story of western North Carolina families and the climactic events which shaped their lives centers accurately around the 1780 British invasion. Their struggles tore families apart and culminated at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The very human side of military campaign contravened the essence of British Southern strategy, to win hearts and minds as well as military victories. Epley's prose vividly paints the close-up, historic picture of world-changing events that happened in the Carolina piedmont through the words, sights and senses of those common folks, our forebears who lived it. He tells the Kings Mountain story better than I have ever read. Joe Epley’s new book, “A Passel of Hate,” is a riveting yarn about the brutal struggle for this nation’s independence. Brothers fight brothers, neighbors fight neighbors in the Carolina backcountry during the weeks following the destruction of the Continental Army in South Carolina. It is a time where passion for vengeance is often greater than the passion for liberty. Epley does a thrillingly effective job fleshing out his many characters (there are no one-dimensional heroes—or villains—here), and he lavishes attention on the kinds of real-world details too many historical novelists gloss over—readers will learn as much about trail rations and camp organization as about higher political ideology, and Epley’s undemonstratively evocative prose and tightly controlled narrative keep it all interesting right up to a well-orchestrated climax at the battle of Kings Mountain and its bittersweet aftermath. Enthusiastically recommended. Distinctions
Gripping, visceral, and full of intensity, A Passel of Hate is as historically fascinating as it is emotionally satisfying; capturing the heartache and triumphs of a war that brutally pits brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor in the western Carolina frontier in 1780. "The first link in a chain of evils...the loss of America" is how Sir Henry Clinton, Britain's commander-in-chief in the Colonies, describes the decisive American victory at the battle of Kings Mountain. This fact-based novel brings the events leading to that battle into sharp focus through the highly personal experiences of families and individuals who shaped its outcome.Through the eyes of Jacob Godley, A Passel of Hate brings to life the hardships and challenges of frontier living where there is a constant threat from Indians, roving raiders and British invaders. Without government orders or formal training, mountain and piedmont patriots join together with their own weapons and horses to expel a British led Loyalist army that plunders the western Carolina countryside, delivering harsh retribution to those supporting rebellion.Jacob and his 15-year-old brother enter the savage fighting with the Liberty Men, but with a dread of having to face their three Loyalist brothers. The overwhelming victory at Kings Mountain is bittersweet for Jacob who suffers a crushing personal tragedy on the battlefield. In addition, his nemesis, the notorious Tory raider Rance Miller escapes, and Jacob, consumed by hatred, tracks the terrorist through the Carolina backcountry to seek the revenge he so desperately needs.A battle Thomas Jefferson called "the turn of the tide of success," Kings Mountain has a devastating impact on the British Army's goal of quashing the rebellion in the south. Brutal in its depiction of the harrowing nature of war and the price paid by our revolutionary ancestors, A Passel of Hate is a powder keg of highly charged personal feelings and military significance. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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A well-crafted, immersive historical novel, with just the right level of period detail.