War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries …
War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries …
Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War.
In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's…
Follows the continuing showdown between Grant and Lee on the battlefields of the Civil War.
These characters come alive as complex, heroic, and flawed men ... You are with (Robert E.) Lee, a deeply religious man, as he first begins to wonder if the Confederate cause will prevail ... You ride with (Ulysses S.) Grant to see the mounds of Union dead at Cold Harbor, and yo…
Follows the continuing showdown between Grant and Lee on the battlefields of the Civil War.
The last year of the Civil War as seen by the two commanding generals, Grant and Lee. The novel is the final volume in a trilogy, begun by the author's father with The Killer Angels. In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil…