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Winston Groom


Winston Groom is the author of fourteen previous books, including Patriotic Fire, Shrouds of Glory, Forrest Gump, and Conversations with the Enemy (with Duncan Spencer), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He lives with his wife and daughter in Point Clear, Alabama.

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Vicksburg, 1863
Written by Winston Groom

Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage | History - United States - 19th Century
978-0-307-27677-3 (0-307-27677-5)

April 6, 2010 | $21.00

(Available April 6, 2010)


In this thrilling narrative history of the Civil War’s most strategically important campaign, Winston Groom describes the bloody two-year grind that started when Ulysses S. Grant began taking a series of Confederate strongholds in 1861, climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg two years later. For Grant and the Union it was...

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Vicksburg, 1863
Written by Winston Groom

Hardcover | 496 pages | Knopf | History - United States - 19th Century
978-0-307-26425-1 (0-307-26425-4)

April 7, 2009 | $37.00



A riveting history of the battle that permanently turned the tide of the Civil War.

While Gettysburg is better known, Winston Groom makes clear in this engrossing narrative that Vicksburg was the more important battle from a strategic point of view. Re-creating the epic campaign that culminated at Vicksburg, Groom details the...

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Vicksburg, 1863
Written by Winston Groom

eBook | 496 pages | Knopf | History - United States - 19th Century
978-0-307-27149-5 (0-307-27149-8)

April 7, 2009 | $37.00



A riveting history of the battle that permanently turned the tide of the Civil War.

While Gettysburg is better known, Winston Groom makes clear in this engrossing narrative that Vicksburg was the more important battle from a strategic point of view. Re-creating the epic campaign that culminated at Vicksburg, Groom details the...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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Patriotic Fire
Written by Winston Groom

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage | History; History - Military - United States
978-1-4000-9566-7 (1-4000-9566-2)

May 8, 2007 | $19.95



December 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militarily superior English crown. With an enormous enemy armada approaching New Orleans, two unlikely allies teamed up to repel the British in one of the greatest...

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Patriotic Fire
Written by Winston Groom

Hardcover | 320 pages | Knopf | History; History - Military - United States
978-1-4000-4436-8 (1-4000-4436-7)

May 2, 2006 | $35.00



From the author of best-selling works of history and fiction, a fast-paced, enthralling retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent, and of the two men who—against all expectations and odds—joined forces to repel the British invasion of New Orleans in December 1814.

It has all...

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Patriotic Fire
Written by Winston Groom

eBook | pages | Knopf | History; History - Military - United States
978-0-307-26531-9 (0-307-26531-5)

May 2, 2006 | $18.95



December 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militarily superior English crown. With an enormous enemy armada approaching New Orleans, two unlikely allies teamed up to repel the British in one of the greatest...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl
Written by Winston Groom
Read by Dylan Baker

Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-0-375-41697-2 (0-375-41697-8)

July 5, 2000 | $14.95



Delia Jamison is a gorgeous woman of a certain age and at the pinnacle of her career as anchor of a network news show in Los Angeles. But she is being blackmailed by someone she is certain is one of her former lovers. Terrified to go to the police for fear...