The Killer Angels

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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. I was most particularly moved by Lee and his torn loyalties to the US Army and his home state of Virginia, and most especially by the great Stonewall Jackson. Winning the Pulitzer in 1975 helped, but the novel's primary audience continued to be history buffs and professional military scholars; it has been required reading at leading academies, including the U.

On the last day of the battle, Armistead’s brigade penetrated further into the Union Army than any other, and it was Hancock’s troops he faced. Mainly because it focuses mostly on the novel’s two best drawn characters, Joshua Chamberlain and James Longstreet. A little foxing to text block edges, dust jacket with thin impression lines, mostly to rear panel, visible in raking light. Shaara depicts Lee as being the most loved man on both sides, but I don’t learn quite enough about why this is so.

Lee the honorable virginian gentleman soldier who facing a choice between fighting his country or his home resigns from the army and heads to his native state only to become The greatest General and possibly the most revered soldier in U. The American Civil War is, if not unique in the history of warfare, certainly a particularly unusual conflict, especially when you consider the officers leading the troops on both sides of the fight. Gettysburg was the turning point of the American Civil War in which the Union forces defeated Robert E.

Goodbye To All That' was Graves fascinating autobiography, much of it devoted to his life-shaping experiences during WWI.Shaara presents a detailed story of the civil war from both the union and confederate viewpoints with no bias towards either side. I feel like the inclusion of this requires an obverse scene, maybe one in which Lee oversees his men kidnapping and re-enslaving the unfortunate blacks who tarried in the invasion path. This isn't just for civil war buffs, it isn't just for military fiction aficionados, it's for anyone who ever wondered what it would have been like. To Michael's disappointment, The Killer Angels was rejected by the first fifteen publishers who saw the manuscript. Shaara is not concerned with trying to explain the reasons for the Civil War, nor in making a case for whether those reasons were good ones or not; his goal is to capture the experience of the fight.