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The Killer Angels
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by Michael Shaara, Jeffrey Shaara, and Stephen Hoye
Sales Rank: 83483
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$23.61
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on 6-23-2008.
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Features
Audio CD
Published by: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition May 11, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0739309056
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0739309056
Book Dimensions:
6 x 5.4 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 11 ounces
From AudioFile
Stephen Hoye's reading of Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning text captures the tension of war even more than the movie GETTYSBURG. As an account of that great battle, it is filled with the sounds and smells of a spring day at one moment, the stench of decay the next. Likewise Hoye's pacing follows the battle with confused but rapid energy at one moment, thoughtful stillness the next. Most striking, however, Hoye's characterizations ring with astounding life. Lee is ever the easy, grace-filled father figure of our imagining; Longstreet has a voice to match his deep, thoughtful misgivings about this engagement; and Colonel Joshua Chamberlain speaks in a distinctive Maine accent, just as one would expect of a Bowdoin College classics professor. Both Hoye and Shaara have clearly done their homework, creating a package befitting this thirtieth-anniversary edition. P.E.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Product Review
“The best and most realistic historical novel about war I have ever read.”
–GENERAL H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
“My favorite historical novel . . . A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.”
–JAMES M. MCPHERSON
Author of Battle Cry of Freedom
“Remarkable . . . A book that changed my life . . . I had never visited Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book, but here it all came alive.”
–KEN BURNS
Filmmaker, The Civil War
“Shaara carries [the reader] swiftly and dramatically to a climax as exciting as if it were being heard for the first time.”
–The Seattle Times
From the Hardcover edition.
Reader Reviews
At a recent Civil War Roundtable a panalist argued that KILLER ANGEL is the best book ever written about the Civil War. The argument didn't go over well with me because I had started to read the book several years ago and just couldn't get into it. However, the recorded version makes the story come alive. The narrator voice brings the emotions of the battle field to life. The recorded version has encouraged me to tackle the hard copy. I would highly recommend this recording for the Civil War devotee and those who have little knowledge of the war! It works for all listeners.
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