01187cam a2200265 4500 547797758 TxAuBib 20130820120000.0 130819s2013||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780307990884 pbk. $28.00 0307990885 pbk. $28.00 NjBwBT NjBwBT TxAuBib Shaara, Jeff, 1952- A chain of thunder : a novel of the Siege of Vicksburg / Jeff Shaara. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, 2013. xxviii, 816 p. (large print) : maps ; 24 cm. The first installment in a trilogy inspired by the Siege of Vicksburg follows Ulysses S. Grant's successful crossing of the Mississippi in May 1863 and his reluctant decision to surround Confederate soldiers and citizens in a ring of Federal entrenchments to starve them into surrendering. 20130820. Large print books. Vicksburg (Miss) History Fiction. United States History 1861-1865, Civil War Fiction. War stories. Historical fiction.