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Product Identifiers

PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-100812555414

ISBN-139780812555417

eBay Product ID (ePID)114181

Product Key Features

Book TitleChapultepec

Number of Pages672 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Historical

Publication Year1996

GenreFiction

AuthorNorman Zollinger

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight11.1 Oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsMuch like Gone with the Wind , this book offers a love story set against the backdrop of a turbulent time."-- Santa Fe New Mexican "I could count on the fingers of one hand the popular writers who can accurately describe the movement of regimens in a battle scene and then with equal skill plumb the depths of a woman's heart."-- San Jose Mercury News "Epic in scope and grandeur, Zollinger's sweeping saga encompasses a passionate romance and outlines Mexico's successful bid for independence from European powers....Superb historical fiction that both informs and entertains."- -Booklist, Much like Gone with the Wind, this book offers a love story set against the backdrop of a turbulent time."--Santa Fe New Mexican "I could count on the fingers of one hand the popular writers who can accurately describe the movement of regimens in a battle scene and then with equal skill plumb the depths of a woman's heart."--San Jose Mercury News "Epic in scope and grandeur, Zollinger's sweeping saga encompasses a passionate romance and outlines Mexico's successful bid for independence from European powers....Superb historical fiction that both informs and entertains."--Booklist

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

SynopsisIn 1847 in Mexico, Lance Corporal Jason Jeremiah James of the 4th Kansas rifles fought at Chapultepee. on the parapet of that great fortress, James saw something that haunted him for fifteen years. In 1862, James is colonel of the 4th Regiment of "La Legion etrangere--France's fabled Foreign Legion--and is again stationed in Mexico. Educated in Paris, the lovely New Englander Sarah Kent Anderson has arrived in Mexico to look after her dead brother's silver mines. Although she is a girlhood friend of Empress Carlota of Mexico, Sarah quietly supports the republican president, Juarez. Her growing attraction toward Jason James only furthers her confusion. As Sarah Anderson struggles to choose between her sympathy for Juarez and her love for the new emperor and empress, Jason James must not only come to grips with his torn loyalties and the woman he loves, he must stand again at Chapultepee and face the demons of his youth., In 1847 in Mexico, Lance Corporal Jason Jeremiah James of the 4th Kansas rifles fought at Chapultepee. on the parapet of that great fortress, James saw something that haunted him for fifteen years. In 1862, James is colonel of the 4th Regiment of La Legion etrangere --France's fabled Foreign Legion--and is again stationed in Mexico. Educated in Paris, the lovely New Englander Sarah Kent Anderson has arrived in Mexico to look after her dead brother's silver mines. Although she is a girlhood friend of Empress Carlota of Mexico, Sarah quietly supports the republican president, Juarez. Her growing attraction toward Jason James only furthers her confusion. As Sarah Anderson struggles to choose between her sympathy for Juarez and her love for the new emperor and empress, Jason James must not only come to grips with his torn loyalties and the woman he loves, he must stand again at Chapultepee and face the demons of his youth.