The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) - Hardcover

"The best and most realistic historical novel about war I have ever read."
-GENERAL H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

"My favorite historical novel . . . A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant."
-JAMES M. MCPHERSON
Author of Battle Cry of Freedom

"Remarkable . . . A book that changed my life . . . I had never visited Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book, but here it all came alive."
-KEN BURNS
Filmmaker, The Civil War

"Shaara carries [the reader] swiftly and dramatically to a climax as exciting as if it were being heard for the first time."
-The Seattle Times

Incisive portraits of Lee, Longstreet, Meade, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with rich historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at Gettysburg, in a new thirtieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel. 10,000 first printing.