Thunder at Harper's FerryPrentice-Hall, 1958 - 282 pages Here is a stirring, hour-by-hour account of John Brown's raid, the prelude to the Civil War; the complete story of the momentous days when, in a hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, John Brown and 21 men acted out a violent drama that carried the country closer to war. In this brilliant contribution to the saga of the Civil War, Allan Keller separates controversy from fact, to show in dramatic terms, the kind of man John Brown was. -- Amazon.com. |
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