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The Killer Angels

The Killer Angels

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It's based on the Battle of Gettysburg and looks at the action through the eyes of the significant characters of the different stages of the short but bloody battle. The last two sections are easily the most engaging, and once you get to that point in the book you will plow through it. But Shaara also includes an interaction between Chamberlain and a runaway slave that I found a bit underdeveloped.

The book is peppered with lyrical, powerful passages, but two stand out for me as particularly moving. He does so masterfully; I felt completely immersed in the (very troubling) experience of preparing to fight, from the oddly relaxed downtime between battles to the gut-liquidating moments before the charge. The fact that Chamberlain was a citizen solider (being a college professor before volunteering for the army) and yet acted so competently and with such courage was amazing to experience. I never knew I could alternate sides so quickly in my compassion: one moment cheering for the North to take it, the next minute, unexpectedly hoping the South would prevail. Their souls are showing through their pale gray ribcages enscrolled with their most intimate thoughts.

Shaara makes the case that Lee was already suffering from the heart condition that would eventually kill him.

Shaara puts the reader in Gettysburg, not only in the location but in the minds of the people who were there. The novelistic form also allows Sharaa to use characters to express their views of the meaning of the War. The Firefly science fiction television series was developed by Joss Whedon after reading The Killer Angels. Unfortunately for the Union he didn’t have long to live or his name may have been further immortalized in Civil War history books. a mad thought that doesn’t last long) So the North was preserving the Union and freeing the slaves, but what exactly where the boys in butternut fighting for.The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara gripped me from the moment I started it, another one of those books dangerous for a mother to start as it could lead to the neglect of children. This was an outstanding trilogy about the civil war and I'm not a big fan of history books about our country's wars.



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