mine started with my father, michael shaara changed the way people look at the civil war.ou probably left of school hating history. what michael shaara did in the killer angels is to take you back to the battle of gettysburg and i put you in the hands of te principal characters robert e. lee, john buford, josh lawrence chamberlain and to tell you that story not the way he would read it in your hig high school texts havtextbookbut to tell you the e way they would tell you the story. michael shaara didn't live to see his greatest success but we won a prize for the killer angels. he passed away in five years later the movie gettysburg comes out, the killer angels becomes the number one bestseller. he didn't live to see that. in writing the prequel and sequel to his great work, while there is a certain care for that comes with it. there was no competition. this isn't about the shadow of the father. it's simply about the lesson my father taught me that is if you are going to talk about these people, told a good story. tell the story of was like during pickett's charge for those