The killer angels : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0679425411 :
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Physical Description:
xix, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Random House, 1993.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in 1974 by David McKay Co., Inc., New York"--T.p. verso. |
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Subject: | Pennsylvania History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Fiction |
Genre: | War stories. Historical fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Pulitzer Prize/Fiction - 1975 09kennedyushistoryap 09kennedy11soar 09holycross10h |
Available copies
- 16 of 17 copies available at Bibliomation.
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- 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Sha Civil War Trilogy; bk.2 (Text) | 33160139706439 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF SHA (Text) | 33260000484726 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC SHAARA (Text) | 34014078989978 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Chester Public Library | SHA (Text) | 33210000065579 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | FIC SHA (Text) | 34047064223556 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | FIC SHA (Text) | 33400010107053 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC SHAARA,M (Text) | 34026063163526 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC SHA (Text) | 34055094514886 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | SHAARA, JEFF (Text) | 34037079948537 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Salem Free Public Library | FIC SHA (Text) | 33640116643085 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara was a novelist, short story writer, and educator. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on June 23, 1928. Shaara earned a B.S. from Rutgers University and did graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Vermont. Shaara spent two years in the service, worked as a policeman and a sailor, and became associate professor at Florida State University in 1961. From 1961 to 1965 he wrote, produced, and performed in a show for educational television. Shaara published a novel in 1974 titled, The Killer Angels. The novel told the story of the Battle of Gettysburg from the point of view of the men fighting it. It received the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. In 1993, the novel was the basis for the motion picture Gettysburg. Shaara also published more than 70 short stories that appeared in several U.S. and foreign publications and wrote several more novels. Shaara died on May 5, 1988. (Bowker Author Biography)