A Strong Conflict

About the Book

A Strong Conflict: In the Trenches of Darkness is the second book in the highly historically accurate Strong Brotherhood series set, and it is a direct sequel to A Strong Brotherhood in Blood, continuing with Zachary Strong’s epic journey in Company K during the American Civil War. Despite over two years of war and personal tragedy and the undoubted knowledge of close cousins in gray, Zachary fights not only the visible enemy, but his own weariness, emotional psyche, and erosion within the darkest corridors of his mind. Through the hardships—horrors, heartbreaks, tribulations, and savagery of men in times of war—Zachary questions whether the Southern Confederacy is, in fact, his greatest enemy. As the war enters its third summer, it now turns toward Zachary’s own home as the two immense Eastern armies cross into Pennsylvania for the Gettysburg Campaign. A Strong Conflict is not only a depiction of what men ceaselessly endured or of historical events, but also of the timeless story of psychological change and the evolution of men in war, as well as the endurance and perseverance of the human spirit. It is extensively researched and based on numerous primary documents written by the common men who were there. A Strong Conflict: In the Trenches of Darkness is the second book in a series set of innovative and highly unique crossover novels, all with the same historical accuracy and integrity of A Strong Brotherhood in Blood, which will satisfy both the novice and the professional historian.

About the Author

Brian L.J. Keator Sr. is an education specialist with a Bachelor’s degree with honors from Binghamton University with a specialization in 18th and 19th Century military history and warfare, including a premiere emphasis upon The American Civil War. His extensive and unrelenting research of more than thirty years consists of not only the campaigns, events, politics and personalities of the era, but the social history, etiquette and social composition of armies, as well as a deliberate understanding of the strategy and tactics throughout the linear age.