I'll Storm Hell

by Noel B. Gerson

The story of the military life of the Revolutionary War General Mad Anthony Wayne.

Genres: History

Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, The Naked Maja, and 55 Days at Peking.

Aside from "Samuel Edwards", which would seem to have been his dedicated by-line for tie-in work, Gerson used the following nine pseudonyms in addition to his own name: Anne Marie Burgess; Michael Burgess; Nicholas Gorham; Paul Lewis; Leon Phillips; Donald Clayton Porter; Dana Fuller Ross; Philip Vail; and Carter A. Vaughan.

Reviews

[Bob Cantrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book a great deal. Although it is a work of historical fiction there is enough facts to it to think you are reading a biography of Anthony Wayne. I will admit that the beginning starts with a funeral and this seems to be a slow start, but the pace picks up shortly thereafter. The author makes the characters come to life in the pages of this book and you get a sense of the War for independence. The thing that I was interested to see was that politicians even back then seemed to always gum up the conduct of the war by their slow response to crisises. Well worth the read.y

[Greg McElroy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent work

I've always dabbled in history and read anything about it I can.
I remember studying about Wayne as a youth. But since then don't think I've heard/read anything about him.
This personal insight was an outstanding work.
Great job

[Pegg · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found an ancient copy of this at a used book sale. I can't resist older historicals, those written before political correctness infiltrated our history. "Mad Anthony" Wayne was a lot of thing, but politically correct was never one of them. While this was a fictional account of his life, it was well done and worth the read if you like Revolutionary War period books. It jumped around a bit too much to call it riveting, but it is very readable.

[Fred Provoncha · Rating 5 out of 5]

He likely would have been the 2nd US President. Had he lived, American history would have been different..fvp