I've enjoyed every Shaara novel until this one. In his Civil War novels, Lee, Jackson, and others were real three dimensional characters with unique voices, and the pace of the writing changed in tense battle scenes.Now he's adopted a breathless writing style using compound sentences continuously, regardless of the tension. He even uses them in the dialog which makes every character and the narrarative all sound alike.It feels like the work of a research team, not a novelist.