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Here is a copy of:
" The Killer
Angels
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by: Michael Shaara.
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Review(s) from the satisfied consumer:
... This
fine example of what historical fiction should be, which I first
picked up to read as an eighth grader, was the gateway into my now
militant obsession with the Civil War and my idolization of Gen.
Joshua Chamberlain. The well-deserved rave reviews that litter the
front and back covers drew me to it, but Shaara's powerful writing
style and stunningly human characters drew me INTO it. Not
surprisingly I worship the film Gettysburg and have accumulated a
large collection of Civil War and Chamberlain-related literature,
though some have suggested this is slightly abnormal for a fifteen
year old. While reading The Killer Angels one must wonder at
Shaara's amazing ability to portray the major players of the
battle, whose real personalities must have since been lost over a
century of historian analyzation, as real people. I absolutely love
this book and jealously guard my much-used copy. To enjoy it you
don't have to be a Civil War buff or even know anything about the
battle, you only have to be prepared to appreciate what is epic and
human in the midst of this otherwise horrifying war. ...
***** *****
***** *****
*****
... Most times, I would much prefer to read a work
of nonfiction as opposed to historical fiction. But after reading
dozens of books about the Battle of Gettysburg, it was refreshing
to read Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Killer Angels. This
fictional account gives us a viewpoint not to be found in
nonfiction works. What makes Killer Angels different is that each
chapter is written through the eyes of the various leaders from
both the Union and the Confederacy including Buford, Longstreet,
Lee, Chamberlain, Armistead, as well as an English observer,
Fremantle. Shaara used diaries, journals, letters and memoirs to
recreate not only what was happening on the battlefield, but also,
what these men were thinking, seeing and feeling. It's as if you're
an eyewitness to history. Killer Angels does not attempt to cover
every minute of the Battle of Gettysburg. In fact, Shaara focuses
on four main aspects: Buford's establishing Union lines on good
ground before the battle, Longstreet's ambivalence about fighting
at Gettysburg, Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine defending
Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge. I found myself especially
haunted by James Longstreet. Once a carefree, amiable man, he's
still reeling from the recent deaths of 3 of his 4 children in one
week. Robert E. Lee's number two man, he knows that a frontal
attack (Pickett's charge) will be disastrous. He is tortured that
Lee won't listen to his advice, and inconsolable after so many men
are killed. "Along with all the horror of loss, and the weariness,
and all the sick helpless rage, there was coming now a monstrous
disgust. He was through. They had all died for nothing and he sent
them...The army would not recover from this day." I also gained an
appreciation for Joshua Chamberlain. Chamberlain was not a trained
soldier, but a college professor. But he was definitely a born
leader. He started the Civil War as a lieutenant colonel and
finished as a brigadier general. His heroics in leading his men on
Little Round Top is a thing of legend, probably saved the Union and
earned him a Medal of Honor. I have found that once Gettysburg has
gotten under your skin, you'll never tire of reading about this
important battle that changed the course of the war. For fictional
accounts, Killer Angels is about as good as it gets ...
*****
***** *****
***** *****
...
Though so many have written before me in praise of this splendid
novel that my words must be redundant, I am still impelled to hit
the keyboard as an act of homage. The writer's achievement must be
almost unique in that he unites an accurate, hour by hour,
depiction of an actual military event with a novelist's treatment
of character and motivation. Other than the Borodino section of
"War and Peace" it is difficult to think of any similar
achievement. The depiction of the individual characters has an
uncanny immediacy and realism, and it is character that dominates
the action rather than vice versa. Two set pieces dominate the
novel - Chamberlain's defence of Little Round Top on the second day
of Gettysburg, and Pickett's Charge on the third. The description
of the latter fearsome but heroic blunder, as seen through the eyes
of the noble and doomed Lewis Armistead, is so powerful, terrible
and yet beautiful that this reader at least was too moved to read
on immediately. Though concentrated on the three days of the
battle, the ultimate themes are not war and generalship, but rather
of honour, courage, integrity and love. These themes are seldom
treated with such seriousness and dignity in modern popular
culture, and we are the worse for it. One comes to the end of the
book with a feeling of catharsis, conscious that despite all that
may be thrown against us, and regardless of how often we may
stumble on the way, mankind is capable of greatness. A wonderful
book. ...
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