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With the Fourth of July just around the corner, a different defining moment in American history comes to the small screen: "Gettysburg," the story of the epic battle that was a turning point of the Civil War. Of course, epic battles need epic...

Michno, Gregory F. USS Pampanito: Killer-Angel. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1999. 445pp. $37.95 USS Pampanito (SS 383) made six war patrols in 1944 and 1945, sinking five ships and rescuing a record number of Allied prisoners of war. Decommissioned in 1945, Pampanito...

It is easy to see why Michael Shaara's "The Killer Angels," which has just received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, was so honored. It is a novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, a subject of almost hypnotic fascination to laymen and military historians alike, and Mr. Shaara's narrative conveys the drama, the courage and the heartbreak of those days…. Mr. Shaara, author of a number of short stories and a previous novel, "The Broken Place," writes that his aim ...

The best way to write about a battle is to tell it as the men who went through it saw it and felt it—and that is what Michael Shaara has done in this stirring, brilliantly interpretive novel, The Killer Angels. It is written from the viewpoints of Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet and their lieutenants, disclosing only as much as they knew at the time, and using the words of the men themselves, drawn from their letters and documents. The author keeps the field glasses on his particular heroes, in th...

"The Killer Angels" is not without flaws. It begins with a "You Are There" portentousness and sometimes lingers too long on personality for its own sake, but Shaara's organization is clear and his prose flexible. Civil War buffs will probably argue with his concentration on Longstreet and dismissal of Meade. Others will condescend to "another historical novel."… [I believe] that even the best historical novel does not keep the reader within its bounds ...

Essay gives me reaction to "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara.

In the historical novel "Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara and the movie "Glory," directed by Edward Zwick, soldiers in the Civil War have to choose between loyalties, the loyalty toward country and friends.

Compares the theme of leadership in the Civil War era film Glory, directed by Edward Zwick and the Civil War era novel, The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara. Details the qualities of leadership and examines how Zwick and Shaara demonstrate that the effectiveness of a group has a direct link to the effectiveness of its leaders.