WITNESS TO A SELF-DESTRUCTING COUNTRY

New novel tells the story of the Civil War through a journalist's eyes. Lively story captures a sense of being on the field.

LINDENHURST, Il (PRWEB) November 25, 2003 -- During the conflict in Iraq, many journalists were "embedded" with troops, or given special access to follow military units through battle. Journalists have worked as war correspondents for many years and through many wars, including the bloodiest war in American history: the Civil War. In the new book, All Out of Heart: A Journalist's Memoir of the Civil War, journalist Nicholas J. Canfield follows the Union Army in the days when journalists saw the gruesome realities of war without special protection.

Canfield first experiences the enormity of the conflict between the North and South as a newspaper editor in Baltimore. After his first taste of battle, he joins the New York Herald and becomes a correspondent, witnessing first-hand the bloody, smoky chaos of Civil War battlefields.

The raw carnage in war parallels his inner struggles. Though Canfield's loyalties lie with the Union, his wife, a southerner, remains in the South throughout the war. Racked with shame at abandoning her, Canfield spends his free hours matching wits and numbing his loneliness with fellow correspondents in the saloon at Washington's Willard Hotel. Later, with General William T. Sherman on the March to the Sea, Canfield finds himself at desperate odds with a commander who despises journalists and has threatened to hang them.

This captivating novel gives a unique perspective of the Civil War. From the fancy ballrooms of New York and Charleston, to the terror and confusion of the battlefield, Canfield details it all.

Though the novel is based heavily on historical fact, the author is a fictional character, created by Jeanette Clinkunbroomer. "Because it seemed inappropriate to publish a memoir by someone other than the person who lived the experience and who tells the story, "Nicholas J. Canfield" got the byline," she writes. Clinkunbroomer is a freelance writer based in Chicago.

For more information, visit www.alloutofheart.com.

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All Out of Heart is a 6"x9" paperback, 362 pages, available from 1stBooks.com, Amazon.com, BN.com, and can be ordered through booksellers. ISBN #1-4107-4392-6. Distributed through Ingram.

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