The Killer Angels

USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP

By Michael Shaara

FROM THE PREFACE: “This is the story of the Battle of Gettysburg, told from viewpoints of Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet and some of the other men who fought there. Stephen Crane once said that he wrote The Red Badge of Courage because reading the cold history was not enough. He wanted to know what it was like to be there, what the weather was like, what men's faces looked like. In order to live it he had to write it. This book was written for much the same reason. You may find it a different story from the one you leamed at school. There have been many versions of that battle and the war. I have therefore avoided historical opinions and gone primarily to the words of the men themselves, their letters and other documents…”

NY. Ballantine. 2003. 375p.