The Killer Angels - A Novel of the Civil War

Informationen zum Autor Michael Shaara was born in Jersey City in 1929 and graduated from Rutgers University in 1951. His early science fiction short stories were published in Galaxy magazine in 1952. He later began writing other works of fiction and published more than seventy short stories in many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post , Cosmopolitan , and Redbook . His first novel, The Broken Place , was published in 1968. But it was a simple family vacation to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1966 that gave him the inspiration for his greatest achievement, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels , published in 1974. Michael Shaara went on to write two more novels, The Noah Conspiracy and For Love of the Game , which was published posthumously after his death in 1988. Klappentext A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Shaara
• Publisher: Modern Library PRH US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2004
• EAN: 9780679643241
• ISBN: 978-0-679-64324-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 212 mm x 28 mm
• Series: MODERN LIBRARY; Modern Library (Hardcover); MODERN LIBRARY; Modern Library (Hardcover); Civil War Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / War & Military, Fiction - Historical