The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War
1974 • 337 pages
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Average rating4.2
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Ratings27
Average rating4.2
*The Killer Angels* (1974) is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The book tells the story of the four days of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War: June 30, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and July 3, when the battle was fought. The story is character-driven and told from the perspective of various protagonists.
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3 primary booksThe Civil War Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1974 with contributions by Jeff Shaara and Michael Shaara.
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My rating hails from 8th grade, when I read this for English class. I hope to reread this eventually to see if my opinion has changed at all.
I devoured this book in just a few days. I've not read anything quite like it before. I do wish the book spent a little more time ‘in the trenches' so to speak. It focuses entirely on the relatively high up officers which is great for giving a good idea of the flow of the battle but it does mostly gloss over the brutality of the battle.
