The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

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Summary

The moving story of the tragic trail from the carnage of Gettysburg to the emotional drama of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, The Last Full Measure concludes the masterwork begun more than two decades ago by Michael Shaara, Jeff's father, in his classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels (1974).

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The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

The Last Full Measure resonates with the bloody Battle of the Wilderness, after which rivers ran red for days with the blood of the wounded and dead; the destruction of the Stonewall Brigade at Spotsylvania; the Union Army disaster at Cold Harbor; and the agonizing siege of Petersburg which led to the unmitigated slaughter known as the Battle of the Crater. The drama ends in April 1865 when Robert E. Lee accepts Ulysses S. Grant's terms of surrender at Appomattox, where college professor-turned-soldier General Joshua Chamberlain, receiving the stacked arms of the ragged Confederate army, gallantly orders his men to salute their returning countrymen.

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Steel Wave, The Rising TideTo the Last ManThe Glorious CauseRise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and – two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University.

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ISBN 13 9780862418113
ISBN 10 0862418119
Title The Last Full Measure
Author Jeff Shaara
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Birlinn General
Year published 1999-09-21
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.