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Michael Shaara
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought for two dreams-- freedom, and a way of life. Memories, promises, and love were carried into the battle but what fell was shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty. This is an historically accurate presentation of the Battle of Gettysburg and the events that lead to it.
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Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 2
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English
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Portraits of Lee, Longstreet, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at Gettysburg. 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. In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of...
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"Now this here planet," he said cautiously, "is whacky in a lot of ways. First of all they call it Mert. Just plain Mert. And they live in houses strictly from Dickens, all carriages, no sewers, narrow streets, stuff like that." But that wasn't all . . . . Travis, in reaching Diomed III before any others, found himself waging a one-man fight against more than this; he was bucking the strangest way of life you have ever heard of!
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Amazing Stories Volume 93 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories: One story by Michael Shaara, "The Sling and the Stone", one story by Willis George Emerson, "The Smoky God, or, A Voyage to the Inner World" , one story by Richard O. Lewis, "Earthmen Die Hard!", one story by Fox B. Holden, "Earthmen Ask No Quarter!", and one story by Evan Hunter, "The Plagiarist From...
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Michael Shaara: "Wainer", "Man of Distinction", "Conquest Over Time", "Citizen Jell", "The Book", "Orphans of the Void", "Soldier Boy", and "The Vanisher".
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Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 1
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English
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The extraordinary lives, passions, and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--come to a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. A worthy companion to The Killer Angels . . . Shaara brilliantly charts the war, the exploits of the combatants and their motivations. He also concisely shows how the early parts of the campaign unfolded....
10) Gettysburg
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Gettysburg (254 min.): "... the gripping saga of the tactics, command errors and sacrifices behind the bloodiest battle ever fought on U.S. soil."--Container.
Gods and generals (219 min.): "... reveals the spirited allegiances and fierce combat of earlier Civil War struggles, framing its tale with the fateful clashes of Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville."--Container.
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Random House Publishing Group
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2012
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English
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Michael Shaara reinvented the war novel with his Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. Jeff Shaara continued his father’s legacy with a series of centuries-spanning New York Times bestsellers. Together at last in eBook form, this volume assembles three Civil War novels from America’s first family of military fiction: Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure.
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