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Originally Posted by Fourpar
Taltarzac,
I just got The Rising Tide. I think it is the first of his WWII series, and The Steel Wave is next. I'll be looking for it in a week or so.
BTW, Jeff also ahas done a great series of Civil War historical novels, if that interests you. Like The Steel Wave, it too focuses on the leadership of both sides of the "War of Northern Aggression" as some down this way call it :  .
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Actually, the Civil War novels were done by both Michael & Jeff Shaara. Michael wrote "The Killer Angels", a sort of historical-fiction novel detailing the three day Gettysburg campaign. I found it to be fascinating! I've read it multiple times and visited the battlefield as well. It is a great companion to that trip. The movie Ted Turner made called "Gettysburg" is an incredibly accurate adaptation of the "The Killer Angels". By the way, Ted Turner does a cameo in "Gettysburg" as one of the soldiers crossing the field in Pickett's Charge. The book has created some minor stir about its historical accuracy, and it certainly glorified Joshua Chamberlain as a huge hero of the battle and the war (not inaccurately).
Jeff (who I met at Gettysburg where he was signing his new book about Civil War battlefields) is Michael's son. He followed in his father's footsteps and wrote "Gods and Generals" and "The Last Full Measure", historical novels that precede and follow the Gettysburg campaign. Both are similar in approach to "The Killer Angels", but each covers multiple years whereas "Angels" covers only 3 days. So the level of detail about people and events is quite different. Still worth a read though.
I look forward to reading the WWII books!
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