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In the Pulitzer prizewinning classic The Killer Angels Michael Shaara createdthe finest Civil War novel of our time an enduring bestseller that has soldmore than two million copies. In the bestselling Gods and Generals Shaarasson Jeff brilliantly sustained his fathers vision telling the epic story ofthe events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now Jeff Shaara bringsthis legendary fatherson trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel thatbrings to life the final two years of the Civil War.As The Last Full Measure opens Gettysburg is past and the war advances to itsthird brutal year. On the Union side the gulf between the politicians inWashington and the generals in the field yawns ever wider. Never has thecumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive hardnosed leader. Itis at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in commandandturns the tide of war.For Robert E. Lee Gettysburg was an unspeakable disastercompounded by theshattering loss of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before. Lee knowsbetter than anyone that the South cannot survive a war of attrition. But withthe total devotion of his generalsLongstreet Hill Stuartand hisunswerving faith in God Lee is determined to fight to the bitter end.Here too is Joshua Chamberlain the college professor who emerged as the Unionhero of Gettysburgand who will rise to become one of the greatest figures ofthe Civil War.Battle by staggering battle Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontationbetween Lee and Grantcomplicated heroic deeply troubled men. From thecostly Battle of the Wilderness to the agonizing siege of Petersburg toLeesepochmaking surrender at Appomattox Shaara portrays the rivetingconclusion of the Civil War through the minds and hearts of the individuals whogave their last full measure.Full of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history The Last FullMeasure is the fi «
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