After Shaara’s death, his son, Jeff Shaara, wrote a prequel to The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals (1996) as well as a sequel, The Last Full Measure (1998). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Killer Angels in 1975.

Shaara based The Killer Angels on the recollections of generals and ordinary soldiers instead of on scholarly interpretations of the Civil War. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. Grantcomplicated, heroic, and deeply troubled men. Jeff Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Robert E. He suffered a serious Vespa accident while teaching in Florence, Italy, which left him unconscious for five weeks and dealing with health repercussions for many years. The Last Full Measure tells the epic story of the events following the Battle of Gettysburg and brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. Over the course of his career, he published more than 70 short stories, many of them science fiction, and several novels, including For Love of the Game, a story about a baseball legend. Petersburg, Florida, before becoming a professor of creative writing at Florida State University. A decorated amateur boxer, Shaara also worked as a police officer in St. For Lee and his Confederate forces, Gettysburg has.

He graduated from Rutgers University in 1951 and served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. The Last Full Measure tells the epic story of the events following the Battle of Gettysburg and brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. Michael Shaara was born to an Italian immigrant and World War I POW father and a mother descended from Revolutionary War patriots.

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