About the Author

RALPH PETERS is renowned for the accuracy, authenticity, and literary quality of his Civil War writing, both under his own name and as Owen Parry. His recent “dramatized histories” and earlier Abel Jones novels have won numerous literary prizes, including three awards of the American Library Association’s W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for military fiction, the Hammett Prize, and the Herodotus Award among others.

The five books of his Battle Hymn Cycle are widely considered the finest Civil War novels ever written, offering an unprecedented, richly human portrait of our past that draws on a lifelong study of history and the author’s own past as an enlisted soldier and then a career U.S. Army officer.

The Battle Hymn Cycle encompasses Cain at Gettysburg, Hell or Richmond, Valley of the Shadow, The Damned of Petersburg, and Judgment at Appomattox. You can sign up for email updates here.