TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Taylor TI - Artillerymen : Purgatory's Shore - Book 1 T2 - Artillerymen series SN - 9780593200711 AV - PS3601.N5475 P87 2021 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2021///] CY - New York PB - Ace KW - Mexican War, 1846-1848 KW - Fiction KW - Soldiers KW - United States KW - Americans KW - Yucatán Peninsula KW - Monsters KW - Alternative histories (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Science fiction N2 - "The United States, 1847. A disparate group of young American soldiers are bound to join General Winfield Scott's campaign against Santa Anna at Veracruz during the Mexican-American War. They never arrive. Or rather--they arrive somewhere else. ... They've been shipwrecked on a terrible, different Earth, full of monsters and unimaginable enemies. Major Lewis Cayce, late of the 3rd US 'Flying' Artillery, must unite these men to face their fears and myriad threats, armed with little more than flintlock muskets, a few pieces of artillery, and a worldview that spiritually and culturally rebels against virtually everything they encounter"-- ER -