Michael Shaara reinvented the war novel with his Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. Jeff Shaara continued his father s legacy with a series of centuries-spanning New York Times bestsellers. This volume assembles three Civil War novels from America s first family of military fiction: Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure. Gods and Generals traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain from the gathering...
Michael Shaara reinvented the war novel with his Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. Jeff Shaara continued his...
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power. Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe s western front. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire, a fierce German army is on the other. Shaara opens the window onto the otherworldly tableau of trench warfare as seen through the eyes of a typical...
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acc...
Three years ago, in celebration of the publication of The Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State Archives, the New York State Archives Partnership Trust, a program of the New York State Education Department, held a two-day symposium featuring research by leading scholars on New York's role in the Civil War. The symposium brought together a broad spectrum of attendees from the Lincoln Forum, Civil War re-enactors, Civil War Roundtable members, students, local historians, educators, and history enthusiasts. As the most populous state at the time of the Civil...
Three years ago, in celebration of the publication of The Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State Archives, the New Yo...
Three years ago, in celebration of the publication of The Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State Archives, the New York State Archives Partnership Trust, a program of the New York State Education Department, held a two-day symposium featuring research by leading scholars on New York's role in the Civil War. The symposium brought together a broad spectrum of attendees from the Lincoln Forum, Civil War re-enactors, Civil War Roundtable members, students, local historians, educators, and history enthusiasts. As the most populous state at the time of the Civil...
Three years ago, in celebration of the publication of The Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State Archives, the New Yo...
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Continuing the series that began with "A Blaze of Glory, "Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America s long and bloody Civil War. In "A Chain of Thunder, " the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted Gibraltar of the Confederacy, a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause. In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully...
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Continuing the series that began with "A Blaze of Glory, "Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in...
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER FromJeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with "A Blaze of Glory" and continued in "A Chain of Thunder" and "The Smoke at Dawn." November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds to Ulysses S. Grant s successes by bringing the general east, promoting Grant to command the entire Union war effort, while William Tecumseh Sherman now directs the Federal forces that occupy all of Tennessee. In a massive surge...
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER FromJeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with "A Blaze of Glory" and contin...