... 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 served in ... in Pickett's Charge would become a legend for each succeeding southern generation. Along with heroism and courage, issues and values on both sides played a significant role in the novel Th...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... Little Round Top at the end of the day. On July 3rd, the Confederates start marching across an open field toward the Union troops. The Union fires cannons and blows huge holes in the Confederate line. Once in range, the Union open fires and kills hundreds more. After sixty percent of the division is dead, the Confederates retreat and the Battle ends. In The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara brings us ... a vivid image of what the battle was like. Shaara is able to capture the pain and wide-spread emotion that was a war, the outcome of which determined the fate of the country. The book paint...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... strategy will accomplish anything. In the book The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, strategy is shown as the most important element of this battle. The Army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E. Lee, lost the Battle of Gettysburg for several reasons. The most important was General Lee's refusal to fight a defensive battle and position the Confederate forces between Washington D.C. and the Union Army. Others factors ... include General Lee's lack of intelligence, and the ... General Stuart was joyriding around instead of doing his job. General Longstreet had hired his own scout f...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , but there are those rare ones that make you feel like you are right in the moment. During the past wars I've learned enough background to understand that while all the men continued fighting, they soon forgot what the reason was that they were fighting for. In Michael Shaara's novel, The Killer Angels, it was hard not to get that feeling from Lieutenant General Longstreet. At several ... points in the novel Shaara had Longstreet sitting alone wondering about what was really going on. The start of the battle was slow and steady ... . Many of the men were in the back out of fire. What su...

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• Grade Level: High School

1. What is the author's purpose in writing this book? The author wanted to write a book about the actual men in the civil war instead of the war itself. He wanted to write a story that had no bad side, because there wasn't one, there were only men who had dreams, and the will to fight for what they believed in. Shaara wanted to instill some understanding about the men in the civil war in readers, by writing their points of view. 2. Describe the author's background (how do you know this?). Michael Shaara was the son of Italian immigrants, born in Jersey city, New Jersey in 1928. His last name w...

• Word Count: 1226
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School