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Gods And GeneralsGods and Generals is the prequel to Michael Shaara's 1974 novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. Written by Jeff Shaara after his father Michael's death in 1988, the novel relates events from 1858 through the start of the American Civil War, ending just as the two armies march toward Gettysburg. Following his father's style of focusing on the most important officers of the two armies (General Robert E. Lee, General Winfield Scott Hancock, General Stonewall Jackson, and Colonel Joshua Chamberlain) Mr. Shaara writes a war epic, detailing troop movements and strategies, combat situations, and the emotional turmoil of soldiers fighting old friends. General Hancock, for instance, spends much of the novel dreading the day he would have to fire on his friend in the Confederate Army, Lew Armistead. The novel also deals with General Lee's disillusionment with the Confederate bureaucracy and General Jackson's religious fervor. Gods and Generals is also an American Civil War movie, released on Friday, February 21, 2003, starring Jeff Daniels as Lieutenant Joshua Chamberlain. External links
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