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Gods and Generals
By: Jeff Shaara , Melinda BlaueBook Publisher: Random House
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Reader Review: With this book Jeff Shaara continiouse what his farther had begun in his greatest work, the Killer Angels. In the same style he goes into the mind of the men fighting this conflict, from before the conflict really started at. We follow these men and their way into the war, from before it begun untill the battle of Gettysburg. The acounts of battle these men was cought up in, are indeed portraided in a way, that few other book come even close to presenting. But it is not just a simple war, it is a war between brothers and friends. We see these mens conflict facing the "enemy", an enemy that used to be their friends. General Lee, a loyal soldier of the U.S Army, going against everything he believed in,tolead the Confederate forces against an enemy, he had sworn to protect. Both sides going to war praying to the same God, believing him to be there with them on the field of battle. We see the casualties, the hardship of these soldiers. Despite being low on supplies, food and clothes, they fought on believing in the cause. A great book indeed, where Shaara truelly picks up the tourch from his farther. Both entertaining, horrible, facinating. It tells a truelly importened story of a part of American history that should never be forgotten. We build our lives on the deeds of our ancesters. We leark from their actions to form our future. We must never forget our past. Without the past there is no future. P.S. I do apologise for any spelling mistakes in this review.
The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Killer Angels
In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War; Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army; Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his promising academic career and goes on to become one of the most heroic soldiers in American history; and Robert E. Lee, never believing until too late that a civil war would ever truly come to pass. Profound in its insights into the minds and hearts of those who fought in the war, Gods and Generals creates a vivid portrait of the soldiers, the battlefields, and the tumultuous times that forever shaped the nation.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jeff Shaara's Blaze of Glory.
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Gods and Generals
Chapter One
They reached a small village, Porterstown, and marched through wide streets, the townspeople standing in doorways, leaning out windows, some waving, others just staring. Farther ahead, on the creek itself, was the Middle Bridge, held by the Confederate division of Daniel Harvey Hill. The rebel forces were dug in, back, away from the creek, and to their front the Federal army was spreading out, into lines of attack, were crossing the creek and preparing for the assault. The battle had begun on the far right, just after dawn, and now, as the sun began to rise up behind them, Chamberlain could hear the steady rumble, and as they moved closer, the sharp sounds of single cannon. He sat high on his horse, moving along with the same slow rhythm of the march, but now the men did not fall out, did not feel the weight of the hot September morning, but stared to the front, marching steadily, closer to the sound of the guns.He heard the steady clatter of muskets now, still off to the right of the road, to the northwest. The battle is not in front of us, he thought. Strange that we should move this way ... not up there.
In front of them, Chamberlain saw a rise, a long, wide hill, and as they began to move up, he saw guns, rows of black cannon set into shallow, round depressions before the crest of the hill. Just then they began to fire, quick bursts of gray smoke, and a sudden shocking boom that startled him and his horse. He bounced around on the road, had to grab the horse hard to calm him. From over the hill he saw Ames, riding hard, past lines of troops that were moving away now, to the right, toward the sounds of the battle.
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...Title: Gods and Generals January 11, 2009 With this book Jeff Shaara continiouse what his farther had begun in his greatest work, the Killer Angels. In the same style he goes into the mind of the men fighting this conflict, from before the conflict really started at. We follow these men and their way into the war, from before it begun untill the battle of Gettysburg. The acounts of battle these men was cought up in, are indeed portraided in a way, that few other book come even close to presenting. But it is not just a simple war, it is a war between brothers and friends. We see these mens conflict facing the "enemy", an enemy that used to be their friends. General Lee, a loyal soldier of the U.S Army, going against everything he believed in,tolead the Confederate forces against an enemy, he had sworn to protect. Both sides going to war praying to the same God, believing him to be there with them on the field of battle. We see the casualties, the hardship of these soldiers. Despite being low on supplies, food and clothes, they fought on believing in the cause. A great book indeed, where Shaara truelly picks up the tourch from his farther. Both entertaining, horrible, facinating. It tells a truelly importened story of a part of American history that should never be forgotten. We build our lives on the deeds of our ancesters. We leark from their actions to form our future. We must never forget our past. Without the past there is no future.
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