The Killer Angels

A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War.From the Hardcover edition.

<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