Thunder at Harper’s Ferry

Thunder at Harper’s Ferry by Allen Keller, Prentice-Hall Inc 1958, Hardback with Dust Jacket. A stirring hour-by-hour account of John Brown’s Raid- the prelude to the Civil War

“A stern command, spoken on a chill, rain-swept afternoon in October 1859 began the ill-fated raid at Harper’s Ferry, which stirred and inflamed this nation as few events have done.

Here is the complete story of the momentous days following these words, when, in the hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, John Brown, prophet, idealist, revolutionary, and twenty-one men acted out a violent drama that carried the country closer to Civil War.” From Goodreads