Ralph Peters

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    May 2019
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Ralph Peters is a wanderer and liguist, writer and soldier, whose journeys through the former Soviet Empire have taken him from demonstrations in the Baltics to roadblocks in the Caucasus. He has spent much of his adult life trying to understand the relationship between actions and ideologies, and he is the author of a wide range of essays and articles, as well as of three previously published novels, Red Army, The War In 2020 and Bravo Romeo.

Full Series List in Order

Battle Hymn Cycle

1 - Cain at Gettysburg (Mar-2012)
2 - Hell or Richmond (May-2013)
3 - Valley of the Shadow (May-2015)
4 - The Damned of Petersburg (Jul-2016)
5 - Judgment at Appomattox (Sep-2017)
6 - Darkness at Chancellorsville (May-2019)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Trick Or Treat Halloween

  • Bravo Romeo

    Upon learning of a terrorist plot, Army intelligence agent Major Jack Thorne goes undercover in Germany's radical underground and finds himself running for his life with a German woman while the entire free world is imperiled...

  • Red Army

    From the cockpit of a MIG to the foot soldiers and tankers on the scarred, bloody battlefields to the four-star general commanding the attack, Red Army is a riveting portrayal of modern war--and of human strengths and weaknesses. Seen entirely throug...

  • The War in 2020

    With the Soviet Union crumbling under internal pressures and a new Japanese empire causing trouble around the globe, the world is in chaos, and the Americans find themselves joining forces with their old enemies in Moscow...

  • Flames of Heaven

    The Soviet Union: eleven time zones, one sixth of the world's land mass, seized for decades by a tyrannous social experiment, drenched in blood and falling in chaos. New York Times bestseller, soldier and writer Ralph Peters, takes us into the heart...

  • The Perfect Soldier

    Returning to Washington, D.C., after getting wounded on assignment, Major Christopher Ritter becomes involved in a scandalous rumor involving photographic evidence of the KGB murders of American POWs. Reprint....

  • Twilight of Heroes

    THE TRUTH CAN'T HIDE IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS A U.S military team on a mission of mercy is massacred in a remote Bolivian village --with no trace of the killers. A colonel awaiting retirement makes it his final mission to fight for the truth...onl...

  • The Devil's Garden

    Relief worker Kelly Trost, the headstrong daughter of a prominent U.S. senator, came to a forgotten corner of the earth to make a difference. But now she has vanished into the dark heart of a lawless, oil-rich nation struggling through a violent rebi...

  • Traitor

    A stunning terror bombing strikes a research facility in France, a much-admired African-American general is killed in a hit-and-run accident, and Pentagon staff officer John Reynolds finds an old friend--now an influential lobbyist--drunk and fearful...



  • The War After Armageddon

    Shocking scenes of battle...unforgettable soldiers...heartbreaking betrayals.... In this stunning, fast-paced novel, a ruthless future war unfolds in a 21st century nightmare: Los Angeles is a radioactive ruin; Europe lies bleeding; and Israel has be...

  • The Officers' Club

    Spring, 1981. Vietnam is over, but the repercussions linger. The military strives to recover as society reels from the excesses of the 1970s... A sinister beauty and a dutiful soldier... a Hollywood lawyer running from a dirty past and a cast-of...

  • Cain at Gettysburg

    Battle Hymn Cycle - 1

    Two mighty armies blunder toward each other, one led by confident, beloved Robert E. Lee and the other by dour George Meade. They'll meet in a Pennsylvania crossroads town where no one planned to fight. In this sweeping, savagely realistic novel, ...

  • Call Each River Jordan

    Vibrant . . . haunting . . . evocatively written . . . Parry's knowledge of the era is nicely on display here. --Kirkus Reviews

  • Far from the cries and smoke of combat, forty murdered slaves hang at a crossroads and only one man insists on justi...

  • Rebels of Babylon

    Satisfying sixth installment to Parry's humorous, well-written and meticulously researched series of Civil War mysteries. --Publishers Weekly

  • Abel Jones arrives in New Orleans to investigate the death of a young crusader and finds himself facin...

  • Hell or Richmond

    Battle Hymn Cycle - 2

    Between May 5 and June 3, 1864, the Union and Confederate armies suffered 88,000 casualties. Twenty-nine thousand were killed, wounded or captured in the first two days of combat. The savagery shocked a young, divided nation. Against this backd...

  • Valley of the Shadow

    Battle Hymn Cycle - 3

    In the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood. From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, D.C., to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fierc...

  • The Damned of Petersburg

    Battle Hymn Cycle - 4

    GLORY TURNED GRIM… …and warfare changed forever. As Grant pinned Lee to Petersburg and Richmond, the Confederacy’s stubborn Army of Northern Virginia struggled against a relentless Union behemoth, with breathtaking valor and sacrifice on bot...

  • Judgment at Appomattox

    Battle Hymn Cycle - 5

    The ferocious final weeks of the Civil War come alive in Judgment at Appomattox, the final novel of New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters's breathtaking, Boyd Award-winning series A great war nears its end. Robert E. Lee makes a desperate...

  • Darkness at Chancellorsville

    Battle Hymn Cycle - 6

    The New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of the Battle Hymn Cycle recreates one of the Civil War’s most dramatic battles in this historical novel.Centered upon one of the most surprising and dramatic battles in American history, Darkness at Chancell...



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    Ralph Peters has published 19 books.

    Ralph Peters does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Darkness at Chancellorsville, was published in May 2019.

    The first book by Ralph Peters, Trick Or Treat Halloween, was published in January 1980.

    Yes. Ralph Peters has 1 series.
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