“The best Civil War novel ever written … The descriptions of combat are incomparable; they convey not just the sights but the noise and smell of battle. And the characterizations are simply superb.… Shaara has managed to capture the essence of war, the divided friendships, the madness, and the heroism of fratricidal conflict.”

—STEPHEN B. OATES, author of With Malice Toward None

“[Shaara] writes with clarity and power.… His descriptions of the battle scenes are vivid and unsparing.”

—Newsday

“Akin to Hemingway … [and] Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage.”

—The Houston Post

“A compelling version of what America’s Armageddon must have been like … surefire storytelling.”

—Publishers Weekly

“You will learn more from this utterly absorbing book about Gettysburg than from any nonfictional account. Shaara fabulously, convincingly brings characters such as Robert E. Lee to life and makes the conflict all too real.”

—Forbes

“Literary wonders will never cease. Would you think it possible that after all the hundreds of books written about the battle of Gettysburg, both fiction and nonfiction, that… [this] novel about the battle could come out fresh, utterly absorbing, with the strong possibility that it may even turn out to be a classic? Well, read Michael Shaara’s … The Killer Angels and find out.”

—The Frederick News-Post (Frederick, Maryland)

“Narrated as expertly as though Michael Shaara had been a participant in the battle of Gettysburg.”

—The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

“It’s at one and the same time an excellent, historical novel, a bitter anti-war tract, and a story filled with an amazing case of beautifully realized characters.”

—Daily Sun (Hudson, Massachusetts)

“An approach so fresh it is stunning.”

—St. Louis Globe-Democrat

“The Killers Angels could well be the best Civil War novel of this decade.”

—The News Leader (Richmond, Virginia)

“All in all it is a feast of reading, the best you will find for a long, long time.”

—The Chattanooga Times

“What makes Shaara’s novel an admirable effort, and one worth reading, is its sensitiveness to the time-spirit of the era. What it reveals is primarily men in context, men in action, and thought within the changing scenery of events. It is a genuinely appealing book.”

—The Charlotte Observer

“This is one of the best novels of the Civil War that I’ve read.”

—Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia)