Other characters are also featured, and side stories help fill out the cast. Lee and James Longstreet on the Confederate side, John Buford and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain on the Union side. The novel follows four main characters, two Confederate and two Union. The book was also the basis of director Ronald Maxwell’s 1993 movie Gettysburg. Army officer programs as well as other military academies. The book has been republished many times and is on the reading list for many U.S. Michael Shaara’s novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, first published in 1974, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the next year. The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable-a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America's destiny.Book Review- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Bright futures, untested innocence, and pristine beauty are also the casualties of war. And more than men fall on those Pennsylvania fields. More than rifles and bullets are carried into battle. One dreams of freedom, the other of a way of life. In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fight for two conflicting dreams. Opposing them is an unknown factor: General George Meade, who has taken command of the Army only two days before what will be perhaps the crucial battle of the Civil War.
His right hand is General James Longstreet, a brooding man who is loyal to Lee but stubbornly argues against his plan. Lee has made this daring and massive move with seventy thousand men in a determined effort to draw out the Union Army of the Potomac and mortally wound it. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. This handsome new hardcover edition introduces a whole new generation to Shaara's masterpiece-and offers readers everywhere a literary keepsake for years to come. This Description may be from another edition of this product.Īfter more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published.
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