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The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, centers around which American military conflict?
a. The Battle of Gettysburg
b. The Battle of Yorktown
c. The Battle of Antietam
d. The Battle of Saratoga
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Michael Shaara

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born

June 23, 1928

died

May 05, 1988

gender

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place of birth

The United States

genre

Literature & Fiction

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books by Michael Shaara

avg rating: 4.12 | 7,264 ratings | 1,028 reviews | 10 distinct works | 11 fans

	The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara avg rating 4.12 — 6,527 ratings — published 1974 37 editions	my rating:
	For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara avg rating 3.74 — 122 ratings — published 1991 10 editions	my rating:
	The Herald by Michael Shaara avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 1981 3 editions	my rating:
	Three Great Novels of the Civil War by Marc (Editor) Jaffe, Michael Shaara, MacKinlay Kantor avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 1994	my rating:
	Shadow of Tomorrow by Frederick Poul (Editor / Contributor), Cyril M. Kornbluth (Contributor), Richard Wilson (Contributor), Dean Evans (Contributor), Robert A. Heinlein (Contributor), Hal Clement (Contributor), James Edwin Gunn (Contributor), Michael Shaara (Contributor) more... John Wyndham (Contributor), H. Beam Piper (Contributor), Isaac Asimov (Contributor), James Blish (Contributor), Wilson Tucker (Contributor), Fritz Leiber (Contributor), Lester Del Rey (Contributor), Robert Sheckley (Contributor), Anthony Boucher (Contributor) [close] avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1953	my rating:
	The Broken Place by Michael Shaara avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1981 3 editions	my rating:
	Soldier Boy by Michael Shaara avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1982	my rating:
	Book of Alien Planets by Peter Davison (Editor), H.B. Fyfe, Ray Bradbury, Mary Gentle, Stephen David, Michael Shaara, Edmond Hamilton, Arthur C. Clarke avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1983 2 editions	my rating:
	Annals of the Civil War/Decisive Battles of the Civil War/a Treasury of Civil War Tales/Killer Angels by Joseph Mitchell, Michael Shaara, Webb B. Garrison avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1991	my rating:
	Elsewhere and Elsewhen by Groff Conklin (Editor), Mark Clifton, J.T. McIntosh, Allen Kim Lang, Cordwainer Smith, Poul Anderson, Michael Shaara, James H. Schmitz more... Donald E. Westlake, Leigh Richmond, Walt Richmond [close] avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1968 2 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Michael Shaara

"There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield."
— Michael Shaara (The Killer Angels)

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"In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question."
— Michael Shaara

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"Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?"
— Michael Shaara (The Killer Angels)

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Benjamin Franklin An American Life by Walter Isaacson

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