Our book club chose this book because many of us live in the area around the Monocacy Battlefield. It was also the right time of year- the battle occured in July, so we chose to read the book in July, too. We were all pleasantly surprised at how interesting the book was and how easy to read it was- not a dry reading of fact after fact.. None of us are history experts or anything, but all of us agreed that this book was interesting and worth reading. It was very personable and I loved how the author gave a post-war synopsis of each of the major characters in the battle. One member of our club visited the battlefield 3 times over the summer! The author even connected me to my great-great-grandfather. While reading the book, and looking up the "roll call" of infantries in the back of the book, I realized he was a part of the battle, and maybe even marched across my front yard. If you like history, especially Civil War history, you will like this book.