Shadow of the Flag - B. C. Gray - Hardcover - 1st ed

"I have always hated thunder storms..." begins a magnificent new saga of a U.S. Army family whose vivid members experience this nation's turbulent history. Beginning with two West Point-trained brothers, James & Timothy MacKendrick, this first volume (in an ongoing series) details their military careers through the anguish of Civil War to the turmoil of the Plains of the 1870s. Here, the reader shares the MacKendricks' camaraderie with men like Fitzhugh Lee, Jeb Stuart, Phil Sheridan & the rest of West Point's "Band of Brothers." The reader also follows the pair from battlefields to the arms of their women. It is not easy loving a professional soldier. Those who do must constantly prove that "they also serve who only stand & wait." Through Dorothea, Adria, Marietta & Gwyneth, the reader gains some inkling of the enormous cost in courage & sacrifice such love demands. Encompassing decades, SHADOW OF THE FLAG & its companion volumes illustrate dramatically what it really means to live by "Duty, Honor, Country." 416pp. Published by Gold Gryffyn Books. ISBN 0-9644106-0-5. 21.95 (hard). January.Gray, B. C. is the author of 'Shadow of the Flag - B. C. Gray - Hardcover - 1st ed' with ISBN 9780964410602 and ISBN 0964410605.