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Bridge Of Texas

NPR
Published January 28, 1996 at 11:00 PM CST

Alan Cheuse reviews a massive historical novel by Czech emigre writer Josef Skvorecky (YO-sef shuh-VOR-ress-kee). "The Bride of Texas" tells the romantic tale of some 300 Czech emigre soldiers who marched under Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in his infamous Civil War campaign across Georgia. (Publisher: Knopf)

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