#jeff shaara

[lightthewaybackhome]

It's amazing how happy I am when my next book to read is a WW2 book. *snuggling into my happy place*

[malicioustheycallme]

Thanks to @stephenlangdaily, I was made aware that Stephen will be in Gettysburg on July 5th for a ticketed event to benefit the Gettysburg Foundation. I was able to get tickets(meaning the tix weren’t outside my max price range) and I’m very excited for this evening and hopefully the chance to meet him.

The event is a dinner, then a q and a with Stephen and Jeff Shaara to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Killer Angels.

I’m wondering if they will allow us to take pictures during the Q & A . If they do, I will do my best to take good ones and post them here.

[bardengarde]

I just finished The Last Full Measure today, exactly one year from when I first started The Killer Angels, and I'm....

[quicksiluers]

so I just finished up jeff shaara’s 4 part series that focuses on the “western” theater of the civil war and i just ADORE these books...i couldn’t get enough of them, the moment i finished one, i had to start the next one. these are historical fiction books but they a great amount of detail to them. and even if you don’t know anything about these specific battles, shaara really goes into without boring you (i know about most of these battles so having that added information makes them even more enjoyable)

my favorite aspect is getting into the “characters” thoughts. i say “characters” cause they are the actual generals from that war...but it’s almost like fanfic in a way? but it’s really fun, the way he writes all of them is different and unquie and the PETTY LEVELS ARE HIGH between all these grown ass men. 

i’ve mention before but the way he writes grant and sherman’s relationship....i feel it in my soul, their faith in each other and their trust....it’s perfection

and what’s nice about these books is that it’s not just the generals. through 3 of the 4 books, we follow a normal soldier. there’s also a civilan that is followed in one of the books, along with a former-slave who makes his escape with the army when going through georgia (who i love, franklin is the BEST)

anyway, i highly recommend these books. if you don’t know anything about the civil war, these books are a great intro. but the “characters” are all fascinating, i mean i’ve never hated braxton bragg more then having to suffer through his chapters in “the smoke at dawn”!

[lyledebeast]

Since I’ve been stuck at home I’ve been reading Jeff Shaara’s Civil War novel The Last Full Measure.  Mostly it’s full of great character studies and details a lot of complex relationships between men, which is nice.

But the reunion scene between Grant and Sherman after they’ve been apart for a few years is . . . something. A highlight:

“Both men laughed and Grant was suddenly overcome, stepped forward and grabbed Sherman by the shoulders, forgot now about the staff, watching from a discreet distance, said, ‘My God, Sherman, you have done a job! I never had a doubt . . .’

Sherman put a long finger on Grant’s shoulder straps, touched the center of the three stars, said, “Well, my my, Never saw those before.  Hard to crowd all those stars on one shoulder.  From what I see, those shoulders are holding that weight up pretty well.”

To think I’ve been writing slash about Star Wars generals when I could be writing it about Civil War generals.

I have been wasting my life.

[scribbledwriting]

My forever long book buying ban going smooth like always.

[lightthewaybackhome]

It's always a good day when I get to read a serious WW2 novel. Yesterday, I finished Okinawa by Robert Leckie. Today, I finished The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara.

I feel full of sadness, horror, and heroes.

[lightthewaybackhome]

Men like you are an uncomfortable reminder that peace is fragile, temporary, that even in the best of times, prosperity must be protected by men with guns.

-To the Last Man by Jeff Shaara