Grant in command-and turns the tide of war. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard-nosed leader. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the field yawns ever wider. As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War.
In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara’s son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father’s vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Major ad/promo first serial to Civil War Times Illustrated BOMC and QPB alternates author tour.In the Pulitzer prize–winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. This tendency toward caricature notwithstanding, Shaara has produced a stirring epigraph to his father's remarkable novel. Grant, more concerned about his supply of cigars than battle losses, comes across as a dolt. Haunted by Stonewall Jackson's ghost, 56-year-old Lee frequently appears to be a semisenile neurotic. But the occasionally coarse grain of Shaara's characterizations is a problem. Impressively researched, this deeply affecting work can't be faulted for inaccuracy or lack of detail.
It then details Lee's 18-month cat-and-mouse game as he outmaneuvers Grant, despite overwhelming odds and terrible deprivation, concludes with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Seen alternately through the eyes of Lee, Grant and Maine abolitionist Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the narrative begins with the successful Union ambush at Bristoe Station in October 1863. Concluding the Civil War trilogy that began with his father Michael's Pulitzer-winning The Killer Angels, Shaara (Gods and Generals) chronicles Lee's retreat from Gettysburg and his valiant efforts to defend northern Virginia from Grant's superior, better-supplied forces.
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