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At the 37th percentile of of the book, the battle of Gettysburg is just getting underway; which is not the place Robert E. Lee or George Meade wanted to fight one another. And, on top of everything else, Lee is distraught about his missing cavalry general, the legendary Jeb Stuart; while Meade has just learned that his top general, John Reynolds, has been killed in the initial battle.

At nearly the halfway point in this well-researched book, one cannot help but feel enormous respect for the submariners of WWII….who faced constant dangers while living at the bottom of the ocean in cramped quarters. Despite their contribution in helping to defeat the enemy, Clavin noted that some 20% of America’s submariners had been killed by the end of the war.

This is the audiobook version......and, while I usually don't care for books that jump around in time, the author does a fine job of moving among key points of the Civil War between 1861-1865