"Brilliant does not even begin to describe the Shaara gift. Thank Gods and Generals that it was passed from father to son."
--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Lively, fast-paced...A worthy companion to The Killer Angels...Shaara brilliantly charts the war, the exploits of the combatants and their motivations. He also concisely shows how the early parts of the campaign unfolded. His accounts of the battles of Williamsburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville are exciting....Though the story of the Civil War has been told many times, this is the rare version that conveys what it must have felt like."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"Shaara's beautifully sensitive novel delves deeply into the empathetic realm of psycho-history, where enemies do not exist--just mortal men forced to make crucial decisions and survive on the same battlefield....[He] succeeds with his historical novel through fully realized characters who were forced to decide their loyalties amid the horrors of their divided nation."
--San Fransisco Chronicle

"Jeff Shaara has succeeded brilliantly. Gods and Generals is every ounce as fine a work as his father's was."
--Detroit Free Press

"Compelling...A work of vivid drama and skill...The strength of this work is its personalization of the struggle. The action both draws in the reader and illustrates the gravity of each situation...There is also a certain poetry to Mr. Shaara's introspections and narrative."
--The Dallas Morning News

"Verges on the miraculous...Against all odds Jeff Shaara's Gods and Generals succeeeds in leading you back to The Killer Angels."
--San Fransisco Chronicle