The Killer Angels

Hell’s Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II by Jay A. Stout is a revealing insight into the lives of the pilots in the air force at the time of the United States’ entry into WWII. The book primarily concerns itself with telling the history and activity of the 303rd bomb group, providing a detailed description of events and personnel in chronological order starting at the group’s inception. Stout wrote the book because he was a pilot himself and because he wanted to show…

This paper is a review of The Killer Angels is a book by the author, Michael Shaara. The book is about the four days that Battle of Gettysburg took place while the Civil War had been going on. The story is placed during the time when soldiers prepared for battle around the town of Gettysburg and when the battle began to happen. Michael Shaara wrote the book to convey out the significance of Gettysburg. He explained the events that happened during the Gettysburg War. In the book, Michael Shaara…

The Killer Angels provided me with many interesting facts about the civil war. It really makes you think deeper into how bad their wounds were and especially how to cure them. Those men went into the battlefield, not knowing if they were going to walk out alive or not. One of the reasons why is because the medical field wasn't as advanced as it is now. Some doctors didn’t even know what they were doing, so you were lucky if you were in the hands of someone who did know. When a soldier was…

Based on author, Michael Shaara’s award winning novel, The Killer Angels, the film The Battle of Gettysburg made its debut on screen in the United States, on October 8, 1993. The film vividly depicts the epic three day battle of Gettysburg. Nearly identical to the novel, the film’s main focus is on the experiences of General Robert E. Lee, Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and Brig. When it comes to history, nothing can be one-hundred percent accurate, and this was…

The story Killer Angels provides an in-depth perspective of both Confederate and Union soldiers during the Civil War. The author, Michael Shaara, accomplishes a special feat due to the fact that throughout the novel he rarely breaks away from the factual aspects of America 's bloodiest war. The Civil War had seemingly various causes despite numerous soldiers and outsiders believing it was entirely about slavery. The Union and Confederates weren 't just fighting over the rights and ideas of…

The book Killer Angels book is about American Civil War. From my point of view I think the cause of the Civil War it really about slavery. The reason it about slavery is because in our lection class we been talking about slavery ever since after the colony war with England. American Civil War began in 1861 when the South attack the union army. The war begin right after the south left the Union. The states that left the Union are about 11 State. Many southerners left the state because they…

Throughout The Killer Angels, you follow the experiences of soldiers during the civil war, and their trials, injuries, and casualties. The civil war was America's bloodiest war with a devastating amount of deaths, injuries, and diseases. During this time medical procedures were harmful and unsanitary. Nevertheless this caused a majority of deaths due to dire infections. While reading The Killer Angels you learned how the characters are administered care for. One soldier's journey you accompany…

one of the worst American wars. However, although it contained deadly battles and disunity that engrossed the nation, it propagated individuals that would set a precedent for what it means to be an honorable leader. In the Civil War novel, The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, Union leader Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain and Confederate leader, General Robert E. Lee, depict many corresponding ideals and strategic beliefs, that accompanied with their different motives for their participation within…

The Killer Angels This paper will compare and contrast the Battle of Gettysburg as described in Ken Burns documentary The Civil War, with the description of that battle in Michael Shaara’s novel The Killer Angels. This paper also considers whether the novel distorts or enhances the historical record. Both works appear to accurately reflect the same set of major facts and recount the military actions that occurred during the three day battle. For example, both works describe the efforts…

“If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they are equal everywhere, and there are really no such thing as foreigners; there are only free men,” said Michael Shaara author of The Killer Angels: a Novel of the Civil War (1975) This quote packs a powerful message. There are several different meanings that I have taken from this quote. The first being that that all of mankind was created equal and gives he gives examples ranging from Blacks to Czechs,…