Devil's Dream
A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest

After finishing his bloody trilogy on the bloody Haitian Revolution, Madison Smartt Bell turned to the Civil War, specifically the Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, an untutored military genius who rose from enlisted man to become the scourge of the Union Army. Many Forrest quotes have sur......more

Bound Miami SunPost November 26, 2009 [URL not allowed] Madman o’ War Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Fight to the Death John Hood For a slave trader, General Nathan Bedford Forrest sure seemed to dig blacks. He took one as a mistress, fathered at least a few, and rode side-by-side with......more

Lovely writing. He played with the chronology as a way to structure the book. (Think of The God of Small Things.) As a writer, I'm intrigued when I come across this, but at the end of the book, I'm usually left wondering what was gained by not telling it straight-forwardly. If he'd given Henri the l......more

A non-linear historical fiction novel, with a narrator who is in the story and somehow knows the future. Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most interesting individuals in the war so I appreciate the history aspect of the book (but I am somewhat of a civil war nut). However the general style and......more

Interesting book. A fictionalized biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Often told from the viewpoint of a Haitian fighting in his army. I think it would have been a lot better id it had been delivered chronologically, though.......more