John Jakes
Paperback | Pages: 560 pages Rating: 4.1 | 4462 Users | 95 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Titans (Kent Family Chronicles, Vol. 5) |
| ISBN: | 0451213475 (ISBN13: 9780451213471) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Kent Family Chronicles #5 |
| Characters: | Jeptha Kent |
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Raging with the heartbreaks and tragedies of our nation's darkest hours, this passionate saga follows a dynamic generation of Kents through the hell of Civil War--from New York, where the Kent empire fears destruction...to Washington, where the family is drawn into the rank web of espionage...to the battlefields of the South, where the youngest Kents rally with pride and honor...along a thundering coast where heroes like Lincoln, Grant and Lee, and maniacal blackguards like John Wilkes Booth, touch the Kents--and change them forever.As the story begins, the Kent dynasty has fallen into the hands of the late Amanda's opportunistic son, Louis...and Jephtha Kent has come North, leaving his three sons at home in the South. A nation torn asunder by holocaust and devastation...a family divided by hatred and greed. Where one battle ends, the other begins, in this turbulent, unforgettable, tale of THE TITANS.
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| Title | : | The Titans (Kent Family Chronicles #5) |
| Author | : | John Jakes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 560 pages |
| Published | : | November 2nd 2004 by Berkley Books (first published 1976) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Military History. Civil War |
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Ratings: 4.1 From 4462 Users | 95 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books The Titans (Kent Family Chronicles #5)
I enjoyed this book - each of the Kent Family Chronicles has some important historical event or war in the book and this one was set during the Civil War. Looking forward to the next one....I had high hopes for this one, but it felt rather disjointed and left me a bit disappointed.
This, the fifth of the Kent Family Chronicles will probably be my last. I think Jakes was losing interest round about this point. If he had stuck to the minuscule side story about how businessmen ripped off both sides in the Civil War, it would have been much more interesting, but instead we get the old "War is Hell" trope. Still,well written withal.
I enjoyed this book - each of the Kent Family Chronicles has some important historical event or war in the book and this one was set during the Civil War. Looking forward to the next one....
Another episode of US history with the Kent family with interesting details about the beginning of the Civil War. How could ANY war be glorious? Gideon and his compatriots find out very quickly how horrific war really is, as they lose their illusions and many of them their lives. Amazing how they were able to continue, being as unprepared and ill equipped as both sides were. Their hatred for one another (and the Southerners hatred for African-Americans!!) eerily echoes the rift that our current
I read books 2-7 of this series in the last weeks of Feb 2013. While I liked the continuation of the family name through each generation, I could have done without every single important female of the Kent family being raped, sometimes repeatedly. They no sooner got power and money than they lost it, and family members ran the gamut from good to brilliant to corrupt to sleazy to fierce to insane to bloodthirsty. Lots of historical info, also, which made the story more real and interesting. But I
The first three books were great, this had great moments but dragged a bit. I put it down twice.
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