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A review by cagebox
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
5.0
The Killer Angels is a book oozing with passion. Michael Shaara was born 60 years after the Civil War, though it consumed him. His son Jeff writes in an outstanding introduction to the novel about his father telling him a story of two best friends who fought on different sides at Gettysburg, miraculously reunited and fated to die together on the ground at Gettysburg where the father and the son stood. Michael Shaara cried as he told it. Jeff had never seen his father cry before. The Civil War has that power. There is something mystical about it, like reading an authentic American fairytale. The characters are legendary, the battles ingrained forever in our psyche.
In the Killer Angels Michael Shaara humanizes the characters that we know so well, though through most media they mostly feel like legends, cold and detached, overly historical. Shaara presents history through a story, inspired by the soldiers' own writing rather than what historians said for them. In turn he creates a novel that breathes truth, authenticity, and life. This is a fantastic book, so clearly made with love that it infects the reader.
In the Killer Angels Michael Shaara humanizes the characters that we know so well, though through most media they mostly feel like legends, cold and detached, overly historical. Shaara presents history through a story, inspired by the soldiers' own writing rather than what historians said for them. In turn he creates a novel that breathes truth, authenticity, and life. This is a fantastic book, so clearly made with love that it infects the reader.