the small town of Gettysburg and on the threshold of splitting the Union.

Gettysburg was as close as the United States got to Armageddon and The Killer

Angels gives the full day-to-day account of the battle that shaped America's

future. Michael Shaara tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes

of the generals and men involved in the action of the battle. The historical account

of the Battle of Gettysburg gives the reader a chance to experience the battle

personally and not the history book manner taught in schools. A historical novel

gives the facts straightforward and provides no commentary by the people

involved in history. The historical account of the Battle of Gettysburg, as seen in

Killer Angels, provides the facts of the battle as seen through the eyes of Generals

Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and John Buford. The

feelings and inner-thoughts of each General and the conditions of the battle are

seen, heard, and felt by the reader in the historical account. Shaara takes historical

license with letters, the words of the men, and documents written during the

and activist for world peace. General Robert E. Lee feels that the Civil War is

the world. "This hasn't happened much in the history of the world. We're an

challenge what he said. Fremantle explained that Lee was a mythical hero even in

Chamberlain is given a brigade after the battle of Gettysburg but is wounded six

and went on to win," says Longstreet on behalf of his choice to fight. As General

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Approximate Word count = 2386
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)