"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 Francisco Chronicle
"The battle of Gettysburg featured a cast of characters dramatically and
poignantly portrayed in Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels. This new
novel by his son Jeff Shaara describes the interconnected paths that
brought these men together at this crossroads of our history. Readers of
The Killer Angels won't want to miss Gods and Generals".
--James McPherson, Author of Battle Cry of Freedom
