Gods and generals /
Jeff Shaara.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.
- x, 498 pages : maps ; 25 cm
A "prequel" to Michael Shaara's The killer angels.
The Civil War as seen by generals on both sides of the conflict. They are the Confederacy's Lee and Jackson, and the Union's Chamberlain and Hancock. The novel follows them from the start of the war to just before the Battle of Gettysburg. A prequel to The Killer Angels, a 1974 novel by the author's late father.
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Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 --Fiction.
Generals--Fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction. Southern States--Fiction.