Profound in its insights into the minds and hearts of those who fought in the war, Gods and Generals creates a vivid portrait of the soldiers, the battlefields, and the tumultuous times that forever shaped the nation. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first. Lee, never believing until too late that a civil war would ever truly come to pass. Listen to Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara available from Rakuten Kobo. Here is Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his promising academic career and goes on to become one of the most heroic soldiers in American history and Robert E. (July) FYI: Gods and Generals will debut in Gettysburg during the July 4th week, to tie in with the annual Civil War reenactment.The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Like father, like son? Not quite, but the Shaara genes, it seems, are in fine shape. Like father, like son The publisher is aggressively linking Shaaras first novel with The Killer. Yet, like his father, Shaara gets deeply into the minds of his protagonists, particularly Stonewall Jackson, who, though shy and deeply religious, proved to be a brutally efficient military leader. Because it covers five eventful years, the narrative is sometimes overwhelmed by its wealth of dramatic material the battles, though convincingly realized, tend to blur into one another. Each is a reluctant warrior who emerges as a gifted soldier possessed of a strong moral conscience in a time of bitter partisanship and hatred.

For June: Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara (New York: Ballentine Books, 1996) 6pm-7:30pm. The story is told from their points of view, along with that of Thomas ''Stonewall'' Jackson. In partnership with the Central Rappahannock Regional Library. Generals Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Winfield Scott Hancock are back fighting for the North, and Robert E. The good news is that, while not matching his father's beautifully wrought prose, Shaara tells a tale impressive in its sweep, depth of character and historic verisimilitude. Indeed, the son's book is a prequel to the father's, following some of its central characters, generals all, from 1858 until 1863 and Gettysburg. Like father, like son? The publisher is aggressively linking Shaara's first novel with The Killer Angels, the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning (1974) novel about the Battle of Gettysburg by his father, Michael Shaara (d.