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The Killer Angels


Joseph E. Seguin
Ms. Weis
U.S. History AP
5 December 1996

THe Killer Angels Opinion and Commentary

In the novel The Killer Angels, Mr. Shaara's historical accuracy is
unquestionable. He has written this fabulous (Pulitzer Prize winning) novel.
Although the heroic suicidal charge of the 10th Minnesotans on the second day of
the battle was left out, Shaara focuses on Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
and the 20th Maine which makes up for the lapse. It is safe to say that
no other novel has so closely allowed the reader to understand the peculiar
madness of this civil war.
After reading this powerful, exciting novel one assumes that whenever
cultures clash, there will be a final conflict. By showing the reader what the
principals of this great battle were (and may have been) current thinking on
multiculturalism are highlighted in a new and perplexing way. This was a great
feet for a book written in 1974 to be so magnificent.......

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