Play for a Kingdom Audiobook

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• “This innovative and original first novel blends two staples of the Americans psyche—the Civil War and baseball—into a recipe for a very readable book. The battle scenes ring true…and the baseball scenes ring true as well. Dyja’s book is admirably wrought.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “A sweeping novel of humanity on the battlefield, peopled with provocative characters. Play for a Kingdom is that rare treat: a novel that interweaves war and play, an ironic tale told with compassion. Watch Tom Dyja.”

  — Santa Barbara News-Press

• “Dyja has a gifted understanding of the powerlessness one faces in combat. War in this novel is not tragic merely because it kills and maims good men; it is dispiriting because it robs them of their identities…The tense mixture of espionage, betrayal, and vivid battle scenes should please discriminating fans of Civil War fiction.”

  — Amazon.com editorial review

• “A uniquely compelling Civil War novel set amid the chaos and devastation that characterized the savage battle of Spotsylvania…An absolutely stunning narrative.”

  — Booklist

• “Dyja effectively juxtaposes the horror and chaos of war with the familiar routine of the game. He explores the theme of war and games as natural activities of man, as battles of pride and place, and as testing grounds of moral and physical honor…An engrossing story, told within the context of actual events.”

  — Library Journal

• “The madness of war and the passion evoked by baseball complement each other beautifully in this extraordinary first novel…A sensitive, forceful, even breathtaking commingling of play and war, daydream and nightmare, the humane and the bestial, in which the human dimensions of warfare are unforgettably evoked.”

  — Kirkus Reviews