The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War

"My favorite historical novel...A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant." JAMES M. McPHERSON Author of BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM Winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for fiction In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty were also the casualties of war. Unique, sweeping, an unforgettable, THE KILLER ANGELS is a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America's destiny.

<b>Michael Shaara</b> was born in Jersey City in 1929 and graduated from Rutgers University in 1951. His early science fiction short stories were published in <i>Galaxy</i> magazine in 1952. He later began writing other works of fiction and published more than seventy short stories in many magazines, including <i>The Saturday Evening Post</i>, <i>Cosmopolitan</i>, and <i>Redbook</i>. His first novel, <i>The Broken Place</i>, was published in 1968. But it was a simple family vacation to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1966 that gave him the inspiration for his greatest achievement, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel <i>The Killer Angels</i>, published in 1974. Michael Shaara went on to write two more novels, <i>The Noah Conspiracy</i> and <i>For Love of the Game</i>, which was pub