The Killer Angels

"The best Civil War novel ever written, even better than
The Red Badge of Courage."
--Stephen B. Oates

"My favorite historical novel....It is a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant."
--James M. McPherson, author of
Battle Cry of Freedom

"A book that changed my life....I had never visited Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book, but here it all came alive....I wept. No book, novel or nonfiction, had ever done that to me before."
--Ken Burns, filmmaker and co-author of
The Civil War

"[Shaara] writes with clarity and power...His descriptions of the battle scenes are vivid and unsparing."
--Newsday

"A compelling version of what America's Armageddon must have been like...Surefire storytelling."
--Publisher's Weekly

"You will learn more from this utterly absorbing book about Gettysburg than from any nonfictional account. Shaara fabulously, convincingly brings characters such as Robert E. Lee to life and makes the conflict all too real."
--Forbes