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Original Title:	Confederates
ISBN:	0060122994 (ISBN13: 9780060122997)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1979)

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This must be one of the best things Keneally has ever done and how it avoided winning the Booker is simply mesmerizing. This Australian author really has no right to go about writing on such a closely-studied and well-documented theme as the American Civil War and the various side issues that went along with it. I suppose that's why I stared at the spine of this book as it sat on a shelf in my library for year after year, without ever opening it. Yet it has proven one of the more delectable pieces of writing of the past ten years, the more so for being such an "unlikely find." Whatever possessed this Aussie to tackle such a subject and how did he settle on this method. For Keneally takes us on the road through Manassas and Bull Run and, as we know, onto Appotomax, although this particular narrative stops short of that final episode. He leads us through soldier's fields, some filled with the detritus of a southern army being overpowered only by a lack of resources, some filled with these same good folk, but now in the innumerable pieces that cannon and sustained breech-loading fire leave behind. He takes us in close to the generals, gives us some insight into the vast movements, both political and religious, that were swaying these mighty armies back and forth across the map of Old Virginny, and even shows us something of what the common soldiery were, perforce, leaving behind at home. It's an uncanny tale, cannily related by a gifted writer and storyteller at the top of his mark. If you can stomach some gruesome details along the way, you will not be one ounce disappointed by this book. It's masterful.

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Title	:	Confederates
Author	:	Thomas Keneally
Book Format	:	Unknown Binding
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 427 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1980 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. American History. American Civil War. Military History. Civil War

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Having read a couple of Bernard Cornwall novels on the same subject from the same viewpoint, it is great to see what a great novelist can do with the same material. This book is a stark reminder of the stupidity and shocking waste of life that this particular war encapsulated.

This novel reminds me of the Shaara stories, or the B. Catton series on the Civil War. The story is centered around a couple of the battle, but especially Antietam. It is well researched and well written. He has an interesting theory of how the infamous Order #191 was lost by the Confederate army and then found by the Union army. A totally enjoyable novel. If you enjoy Civil War history, and well told historical novels, you will like this one. I was not aware the was Australian, but got a clue

I thought I'd better read some of this guy - as it was one of the many gaps in my author knowledge - so I got this and something about the WW1 Armistice. Yep it sure is a page turner but it is purely narrative driven. Although there is much written about how it realises how ugly and bloody were the effects of the American Civil War, I found that this became just another element of the book and if he was trying to make a point about the tearing of the south apart like the tearing of bodies apart,

I always feel I'm getting two books in one from the wonderful Thomas Keneally.First there's the historical account of events at a pivotal time - the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, an Australian aborigine challenging colonialism, the inside of the carriage where terms of the First World War peace settlement were imposed, and here one aspect of the American Civil War when the confederates came much closer to Washington than I ever imagined.But it's not Keneally's painstaking research and

As seems to be the pattern recently. Perhaps better than just okay, but on the same token not phenomenal enough to warrant extra stars. So dead center in the ratings. This was a strange one. An Australian author writing about the American Civil War from a Southern/Confederate viewpoint which was thereafter nominated for a British award. I can see why it didn't ultimately come away with the award, but it was entertaining and did a great job of conveying the hopelessness and hollowness of "The

Thomas Keneally is one of Australia's most celebrated authors. He is know in the US as the author of Schindler's List. The book is a reprint of the original published in the 1980's when Keneally was doing a sabbatical in the US. The fact that he would attempt such a book, a historical novel of the American Civil War from the southern point of view, shows both great skill and a great intellect. The language can be difficult (accurate?) and a few of the situations off beat, but in toto this is a

The US Civil War has always been a subject I've wanted to understand better and this was a great novel to do that. The book covers a relatively short period in the war and follows several characters, from lowly foot soldiers through to the Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Kenneally manages to capture the horror of the battles along with the minutiae of human experience as well as explaining the rationale for the South wanting to secede from the Union. The characterisation is really good