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Northern Wolf Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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It is late 1862, and the United States has been ripped apart by civil war for over a year with no end in sight. The war is a distant thought to Johannes Wolf, a young German immigrant with a crippled leg keeping him off the muster lists.

Desperately dredging the gutters for recruits, Wolf cons his way into the depleted, demoralized, and poorly run Union army, and is promptly placed in the undesirable F Company of the 13th Michigan Cavalry.

Wolf's company find themselves riding with Custer and the Michigan Brigade on a collision course with master horseman J. E. B. Stuart and the Army of Northern Virginia in a small town in Pennsylvania, called Gettysburg.

Will they stand tall against the knights of the South and prove themselves worthy? Or will they fall beneath screaming bullets and sweeping blades, becoming more bloody fodder for a lost cause?

Northern Wolf is a thrilling, historical pause-resister packed with detailed passages of battle, the horrors of war, and the struggle to discover oneself. Fans of Bernard Cornwell will be captivated by this powerful new series.

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  1. Listening Length
    7 hours and 31 minutes
  2. Author
    Daniel Greene
  3. Narrator
    Bradford Hastings
  4. Audible release date
    September 10, 2019
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Blackstone Publishing
  7. ASIN
    B07V9JSWF1
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 7 hours and 31 minutes
Author Daniel Greene
Narrator Bradford Hastings
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date September 10, 2019
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B07V9JSWF1
Best Sellers Rank #302,424 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#3,296 in War & Military Fiction
#5,485 in Military Historical Fiction
#15,293 in War Fiction (Books)

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just awesome series
Absolutely a great achievement and bringing fiction to reality to the Civil War. This is how many soldiers entered the Civil War with nothing else left to go on. Hope he tries not to retire wolf and somehow Place him Whit's Custard Little Bighorn great job.
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Don Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Civil War Story
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2020
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Combining narrative fiction and well-researched history this book deserves 5 stars. The characters (both fictional and historical) are very well drawn and believable, situations and battles exciting and locales well described. Looking forward to reading the next Books in the series!
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Steven S.
4.0 out of 5 stars good start
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2023
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Good beginning to the series. Contains a lot of accurate history of the battle at Gettysburg. It’s good enough to keep reading.
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Preston Holtry
5.0 out of 5 stars A Terrific Historical Novel
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021
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It’s 1862 and the Union Army is recruiting just about anyone in Grand Rapids Michigan – that is except for Johannes Wolf, rejected for the leg brace he wears because of knee that doesn’t bend all the way. Jobless and dependent on his father, he spends most of his time in the local tavern drunk, feeling sorry for himself, and looking for the next fight. A dispute with three Polish immigrants over a spilt beer ends with the four of them in jail and available for an army recruiter who quickly appears. Again, one look at Wolf’s brace and the recruiter moves on to the three immigrants. Wolf quickly improvises and convinces the recruiter the other three won’t join without him. The four are soon enlisted in the 13th Michigan Cavalry. Daniel Greene takes Wolf and an assortment of unforgettable and engaging characters through the rigors of training and primitive camp conditions before facing the merciless fighting that follows. While others bemoan their fate, Wolf thrives and soon becomes a man others will follow for his natural leadership, quick thinking, and fighting ability as demonstrated throughout the book. The author captured me by page two and had me ready for Book 2. Books 3 and 4 are in my library with book 5 pre-ordered. The author is a splendid writer who has a genuine feel for the historic period, a gift for making even minor characters memorable, and the consummate skill to tell an action-packed, compelling story. Northern Wolf simply has all the stuff that makes for a great historical novel. Preston Holtry, author of the ARRIUS Trilogy and the Morgan Westphal period mysteries
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George Aubrey
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2020
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Story was a bit implausible: crippled private personally saves General Custers life in battle, take on CSA General in single combat with sabots and later attacks him again. Development of protagonist is very shallow and that of secondary characters was almost nonexistent. Overall disappointed. A good editor would have help. Book reads fast.
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The Green Knight
4.0 out of 5 stars Best Kindle Unlimited
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2021
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This book is very good, not among the best of the many Civil War novels I have read, but comfortable among the next tier down from the best. It is also the best Kindle Unlimited book I have read. Our protagonist is an anti-hero who is prone to drinking and fighting in civilian life. He manages to enlist in a Michigan cavalry unit despite a permanent injury to his leg. He wants to prove to his father, his society, and himself that he is a man like any other despite his handicap. He does a fine job of it as he fights with a company of other outcasts.
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L. Page
5.0 out of 5 stars Gettysburg
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2024
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This book is about some young people who wanted to join the army for the north during the Civil War. They hoped for glory and recognition. All to soon they found that war is life changing. This is their story.
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David Fitz-Gerald
5.0 out of 5 stars From a Barroom Brawl to the Battlefields
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2021
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NORTHERN WOLF is the story of 19-year-old Johannes Wolf (Wolf). The opening scene, set in Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 1862, depicts a hot-headed youth starting trouble in a barroom. Despite having a bum leg that requires wearing a metal brace, Wolf challenges three burly brothers, recent immigrants from Poland. The bartender, a friend of Wolf’s father, suggests, “Why don’t you join the army or something? You’ve got a thick neck. Remind me of a lame ox.”

After the opening chapter, it was a little difficult to root for the protagonist, but eventually, I came around. After cooling off in a jail cell, Wolf musters for service in the American Civil War, joining the fictional 13th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry. At this stage in the war, Wolf’s disability is overlooked. Also mustering are Wolf’s friend, Franz, and Franz’s widower father, as well as the three strong men from the barroom brawl.

Can an angry young man with a bad leg survive the rigors of war? The following summer, Wolf and the 13th Michigan find themselves engaged at East Cavalry Field in the company of newly promoted, 23-year-old Brigadier General of volunteers, George (Autie) Armstrong Custer. Perhaps more people are aware of Custer’s Last Stand and his defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn than they are of his service in the Civil War. I love the portrayal of Custer in this book.

The author expertly depicts the life of a soldier and battle scenes. Spotlighting tiny details, conveying the enormous stakes, and expressing the camaraderie of men who must depend on one another, that’s how author Daniel Greene recreates the Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg. Having visited Gettysburg several times, it is incredible to look upon the open land and imagine tens of thousands of soldiers battling thereupon. This book vividly paints that tragically violent picture on that open landscape in my mind.

I noticed lots of descriptions of beards and facial hair, and it made me think of all of the times I’ve seen pictures of officers on both sides of the Civil War.

I highly recommend NORTHERN WOLF by Daniel Greene.
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MistressOfTheCastle
4.0 out of 5 stars I really liked this
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2022
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I loved the historical aspect and that the author went back and forth between the North and South armies and commanders for perspective. I’m just about to download the second and third books in this series, and I’m really looking forward to reading them. Great new to me author, and I definitely recommend.
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VEH Masters
5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting, enjoyable and informative
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2022
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Set during the American Civil War, we follow the adventures of Johannes Wolf as he joins the Union cavalry in the lead up to, and including, Gettysburg. Wolf is an interesting character of himself, son of recent German immigrants and has to wear a brace on his leg to walk – hence the cavalry – and we are constantly with him in the pain, inconvenience and sometimes danger he suffers because of this.

I learnt a lot about US history – the large numbers of recent immigrants who joined Lincoln's side because they had fled a similar persecution; the sheer bloodiness of the hand to hand fighting leading to huge casualties from any encounter; and that Custer (who I'd only known of for his last stand) rose to prominence during this war as a very young, and bold, general. Altogether an exciting and informative read.
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Judith Dickinson
5.0 out of 5 stars History made personal
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2019
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Although this book is a work of fiction it is based around an intense time in American politics and life. The background storyline is the Civil War, in Gettysburg territory, from October 1862 to July 1863. Johannes Wolf finds himself in the centre of a war the likes of which has not been seen before. Follow him through the horrors or death and destruction, as he and his close colleagues form bonds that bring the reader into their emotional turmoil. To see the war from such a personal perspective is truly unique. You feel for them as they fight for what they believe is right, while seeing their fellow fighters killed or horrendously wound.
Yes we have General Robert E Lee and General Custer dictating the moves but it is the stories of these individual soldiers that bring the story home to the reader.
Listening to them tell that story was spellbinding. A gripping read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2020
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I really enjoyed this it was fast moving,respectful,it certainly was enthralling. He is certainly an author who enjoys his work. Will definitely read more of his work.
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