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The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
Random House Publishing Group
Copyright 2003
355 pages

This book takes place over four days; Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. For each section of the book, the battle scenes change. The first one is when the armies establish the position on Monday. At this time, the Union has a good hold over the town. By the end of the next section, Wednesday, the Confederacy is in most control and forced the Union troops to go back to the Hills of Gettysburg. But by the end of the Thursday section, the Union is the best after it resisted Lee's attack.
Since the book mostly goes back and fourth, it really makes you wonder what's going to happen in the final section. Obviously, you already know that the Union will resist Pickett's charge. But how the author does the back and forth technique, it makes it seem the Union is about to be victorious, the Confederacy, then the Union again. It kind of makes it suspenseful. In the final section, Friday, you......

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Approximate Word Count: 2747
Approximate Pages: 11 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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