Name: Institution Affiliation: Date: The Killer Angels: A Book Review “The Killer Angels” is a book written by Michael Shaara based on the accurate story of the Gettysburg battle during the 1963 civil wars. Being a world-renowned and prize-winning author, Michael Shaara was born in 1929 and raised in New Jersey, (Jersey City). He grew up just like any another normal kid, finished high school, and later joined the Rutgers University where he graduated in 1951. After graduation, Shaara ventured into fiction writing and in 1952 his short stories based on science fiction got recognition when they were published in Galaxy Magazine. Later, he started writing new fictional works that were published in several magazines as short stories, including the Redbook magazine, Cosmopolitan, and The Saturday Evening Post. Since then he has published several novels such as “The Broken Place” in 1968, the “Noah Conspiracy” and “For Love of the Game” published later in 1988 (Penguin Random House). The novel “The Killer Angels” is Michael Shaara greatest achievement and an award- winning novel published in 1974. Michael Shaara’s inspiration to write this novel followed a 1966 family vacation in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Right after its publication, the novel sparked attention in millions of readers globally that it bagged the famous Pulitzer Award as the best fiction novel (Penguin Random House). Largely, the novel was intended for historians, history students, anyone who cared to or have an interest in fiction stories based on accurate events of the past. Following the complexity of the words used in the novel, the tone, and the general organization, it can be deduced that this novel was for students, graduate candidates who have
