Three Great Novels of the Civil War Author:Michael Shaara, Marc Jaffe (Editor), MacKinlay Kantor, Stephen Crane Three Great Novels of the Civil War — Edited by Marc Jaffe — The Civil War seared the very heart of this nation as no other episode in its history. In the many years since its passing, that savage conflict has inspired novelists, painters, poets, historians and composers to create literally thousands of works of art and literature. — Here, in one v... more »olume, are three of the most important of these works—three novels of uncommon power and authority, lavishly praised by general readers and literary critics alike. This classic collection begins with The Killer Angels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel which inspired the popular motion picture Gettysburg.
THE KILLER ANGELS
by Michael Shaara
Gettysburg has emerged as the crucial battle, the turning point of the Civil War, and the place where, as one historian put it, "a new America was born." The Killer Angels takes the reader into the reality of that bloody cauldron u, ith clear prose and an ironic tone. This deceptively simple style only serves to heighten the tragic drama of the battle and the revelation of its chief characters' complexities. In the end, we know not only how the battle was fought, but see the very souls of those who fought it.
ANDERSONVILLE
by MacKinlay Kantor
Another Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Andersonville is the story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered and 14,000 died; a story
which displays the guilt and greatness of both Union and Confederacy. An extraordinary narrative brings to life the planters and soldiers, prisoners and guards, cowards and heroes—all joined in a single struggle to survive the war between North and South.
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
by Stephen Crane
In his famed novel, the great American author explores the face of war itself. He leads the reader into the war experience through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young recruit who desperately wishes for his wound, his "red badge of courage." What Henry learns instead is the price to be paid in blood and bone and moral conflict for a certain piece of knowledge—that he had come to be a man.
From Kantor's broad scope to Shaara's focus on a single battle to Stephen Crane's raw recruit, Three Great Novels of the Civil War presents an epic portrait of the Civil War as it has never before been seen.« less