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Union Fires

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Vietnam veteran Dan Samson travels back in time and discovers that he has become a deciding factor in the battles of the Civil War.

Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

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Barnes J

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July 5, 2021
Very confusing, dull and uninteresting American civil war story told through the eyes of the "Eternal Soldier" I guess the author read a lot of Barry Sadler's "Casa The Eternal Mercenary" books. Somehow a Vietnam vet is transported through time, just like Casa. He enters peoples bodies and rights wrongs, I guess.

The first chapter confused the hell out of me. The soldier has so many name's and aliases that I couldn't keep it straight. Then the people around him have names and also looked like people our hero knew in other lives who had other names. I should of stopped there. There is very little action. A prison break is so boring I almost feel asleep. Just talking. Moralizing and pondering. This sounds cliche, but I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to skip this dog.


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2,151 reviews78 followers
September 3, 2019
As a non-american I struggled to work out what was going on at the start. The protagonist is a confederate spy pretending to be a union spy pretending to be a confederate soldier that is now inhabited by the soul of a present-day US soldier. It took me a while just to remember which side kept slaves...

Once I had all of this sorted, things improved.
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