... written by his great grandfather, a Confederate soldier. A trip to Gettysburg, where his great grandfather was wounded, moved Shaara to begin his novel about those three bloody days in the summer of 1863. The Killer Angels won Shaara a Pulitzer Prize and sold more than two million copies. This novel is a very powerful novel that helps readers gain gratitude and appreciation for those who ... as "grave, with a boyish dignity, that clean-eyed, scrubbed-brain, nave look of the happy professor." He was a man who had "grown-up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger fai...

• Word Count: 1281
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... written by his great grandfather, a Confederate soldier. A trip to Gettysburg, where his great grandfather was wounded, moved Shaara to begin his novel about those three bloody days in the summer of 1863. The Killer Angels won Shaara a Pulitzer Prize and sold more than two million copies. This novel is a very powerful novel that helps readers gain gratitude and appreciation for those who ... as "grave, with a boyish dignity, that clean-eyed, scrubbed-brain, nave look of the happy professor." He was a man who had "grown-up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger fai...

• Word Count: 1222
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School