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Book · 1974 · Fiction

The Killer Angels

The Classic Novel of the Civil War
Michael Shaara
Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) · 374 pages
★ 5.8 editorial score

Three days at Gettysburg from inside the men commanding it: Shaara has Longstreet pleading with Lee not to send infantry across open ground, and Chamberlain, out of ammunition, ordering a bayonet charge downhill.

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1974Depicts American Civil WarDepicts 1860s

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Quote · 1863

“But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Abraham Lincoln