The Killer Angels

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The younger Shaara tells of how his father’s book was rejected over a dozen times, was a commercial flop but won a Pulitzer Prize only to see no increase in its profile following the award. It is the third summer of the war, June 1863, and Robert Lee's Confederate Army slips across the Potomac to draw out the Union Army. Being an Aussie, the American Civil war was just something I was taught at school, it had no real relevance.

The guide responded that Kilrain didn’t have a grave because he was a fictional character and never existed in real life. Shaara also credits the forgotten Buford with being a major reason as to why the Union was able to seize the high ground. According to the NY Times article I referenced earlier, Shaara “resurrected Chamberlain as a hero, and he has remained one of the most popular figures associated with the battle ever since. But it is 'The Killer Angels' that remains the masterpiece, perhaps the best war novel ever written. The story is told in sections devoted alternately to the perspectives and roles of many of the leading protagonists: the Confederate Commanding General Robert E.I hate the idea of causes,” Forster wrote, “And if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. This was an outstanding trilogy about the civil war and I'm not a big fan of history books about our country's wars. It ends with General "Stonewall" Jackson's death at Chancellorsville and just as the armies approach Gettysburg. He leaped down from the boulder, still screaming, his voice beginning to crack and give, and all around him his men were roaring animal screams, and he saw the whole Regiment rising and pouring over the wall and beginning to bound down through the dark bushes, over the dead and dying and wounded.

In the pre-Civil War army, Armistead had been a great friend of the Union General, Winfield Scott Hancock who performed admirably on each of the three days of Gettysburg. and it makes an ideal companion to Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet On The Western Front', a novel about the First World War from the German POV; both books are included in the 4-volume WWI-Classics pack picture-linked above.Grant, the hard and calculable General who unleashes what his predecessors lacked in assuring victory: THE FIGHT which crushes The Confederate States Army and ends the war. It is no exaggeration to claim that the experience of immersing oneself into this book will give any curious reader inspiration to want to know more about the Civil War. Gods and Generals - Fascinating portrayal of a sad time in US History, as told from the perspectives of the generals involved in these campaigns. You often hear the cliché "it's like history comes alive on the page," rarely is it as true as in this case.

In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds. Armistead died after crossing the Union line in the charge and, as legend has it, with his dying breath asked for Hancock's forgiveness. The stress of this and his smoking caused him to have a heart attack at the early age of 36; from which he fully recovered. He had written another novel, "For the Name of the Game", eventually released as a movie in 1999 starring Kevin Costner. who seem to belong in some Arthurian myth/melodrama next to Longstreet and Hancock who could easily have been cast in some post-apocalyptic Battle Royale.Michael, in his foreword, even talks about the similarity of his story to Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. Michael Shaara's passion gave life to something unique and singularly extraordinary in this Pullitzer Prize winning novel.