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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Alexis Johnson- The Killer Angels

The Killer Angels is the story of the four days of the Battle of Gettysburg, told from the different perspectives on each side of the war. As the story is told by different accounts you get to see personalities unfold and how eerily similar their tactics on winning the battle are. I love how we get such a dominant voice on the Union side by Colonel Chamberlain even though on the Confederate side we get General Lee and General Longstreet. I feel that by making Colonel Chamberlain a dominant character in the novel even though he's not a General like the others show's not only Shaara's, but America's admiration for him.

2 comments:

Daniel said...

I like the fact that Shaara looks at the battle from the Confederate's side. History is often written by the winners, but here you have a case of it being seen from the losing perspective.

Mcapush said...

Eli Lasley: The battle of Gettysburg contained the most American deaths in wars fought on American soil, and the Killer Angels captures the chaos and insanity that occurred within the few days that the war took place.