Response to the "Killer Angels" The Killer Angels is a historical novel written by Michael Shaara. It is one of the best novels I ever read. It describes four days at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863 in what many consider to be the turning point of the American Civil War. When I was reading this novel I had a feeling that I saw all events by my own eyes. It also made me realize …
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…letters or documents. When reading the book I found out that General Lee was not the one who actually lost the war among many other reasons General's Lee "right arm" Stonewall Jackson, had been killed and his replacement General J.E.B. Stuart was keeping Lee uninformed. I did not read a novel in my life that so nearly allowed me to understand the American civil war. And I would advise everybody to read it.