Title: The Killer Angels Opinion and Commentary Category:Literature / Novels Details: Words: 675 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Killer Angels Opinion and Commentary
The Killer Angels Opinion and Commentary
In the novel The Killer Angels, Mr. Shaara's historical accuracy is
unquestionable. He has written this fabulous (Pulitzer Prize winning) novel.
Although the heroic suicidal charge of the 10th Minnesotans on the second day of
the battle was left out, Shaara focuses on Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
and the 20th Maine which makes up for the lapse. It is safe to say that
no other novel has so closely allowed the reader to understand the peculiar
madness of this …showed first 85 words of 675 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 675 total…loot, or power, but to make people
free. He also makes it clear that the Confederate leaders and soldiers also
fought for a different sense of freedom. The conflicts within men, who having
vowed in happier times to never take arms against each other, yet nevertheless
find themselves on opposite sides of a battlefield. The book closes with
General Lee leading his weakened forces on a retreat south to the safety of
Virginia after having lost thousands of men in furious assaults on Union
positions.
