STEEL AND HONOR: FROM CADETS TO CAPTAINS

Before brother fought brother, they trained together.
Long before the first shots of the Civil War, a generation of American officers was forged in the crucible of foreign wars and bound by codes of honor. Steel and Honor traces the parallel lives of two men-friends, rivals, soldiers as they rise from graduating as Cadets at West Point to seasoned captains hardened by the Mexican War, European battlefields and time serving in the Army of the 1850s. But as secession threatens to tear the country apart, their oaths, ambitions, and loyalties are put to them and their growing families the ultimate test. Rich in historical detail and realism, this military historical novel explores what it means to lead, to follow, and to hold the line when your country comes undone.