...a book by Michael Ashaare, published some years back and won him a Pulitzer.

I love reading history stuff--this is the greatest Civil War book I have read. It deals only with the Battle of Gettysburg, and I finally feel like I have a much better understanding of the battle as well as the personalities involved in directing it.

Two tomahawks up...Way Up!

The movie was Great as well!

He and his late father wrote 3 books.

Gods and Generals is my favorite!!

Gotta check it out..

chief..His name was Michael Shaara, sadly, he died shortly after writing that novel.

However, his son Jeff has taken up the mantle and has written eight more novels in the same vein.

By era, he wrote two on the Revolution...one on the Mexican war...two on the Civil war...one on WWI...and has completed two of a trilogy on WWII. I have found them all to be great reads, and am waiting for the last WWII novel.

Cigarman,

I'm not ashamed to say that I'm glad to find someone who knows what I'm talking about.

I'm going to the library in the next two days and will be looking for all their work

OK..I'll list them, should make them easier to find.

Revolution: "Rise to Rebellion" & "The Glorious Cause"

Mexican: "Gone for Soldiers"

Civil War: "Gods and Generals" & "The Last Full Measure"

WWI: "To the Last Man"

WWII: "The Rising Tide" & "The Steel Wave"

(there is a third novel in the WWII series, but I haven't read or heard about a publication date yet)

I've listed them by era and not his pub. dates.

http://civilwarinteractive.com/ 

I live less han an hour from Gettysburg and go there alot.

In Harrisburg (20 minutes) is the National Civil War Museum. That is also the Area where Camp Curtain (Where they trained the Union Troops}IS.

Just did some nosing around and found that he will be releasing the third novel on Nov. 3, 2009 titled: "No Less Than Victory".

He also has so much source material, he is doing a fourth novel on WWII due in the spring of 2011.

He is then doing two more novels on the Civil War for the 150th anni. (2011-2015)

Then going to work on the Korean War and probably Vietnam.