Brief description:
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil
War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In
the bestselling Gods and Generals Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling
the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings
this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion, in a novel that brings to life the final
two years of the Civil War.
As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal
year. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the
field yawns ever wider. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard-nosed leader. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in
command and turns the tide of the war.
For Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg was an unspeakable disaster- compounded by the shattering loss of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before. Lee knows better than anyone that the South cannot survive a war of attrition. But with the total devotion of his generals - Longstreet, Hill, Stuart-and his unswerving faith in God, Lee is determined to fight to the bitter end.
Here too is Joshua Chamberlain, the college professor who emerged as the Union hero at Gettysburg- will rise to become one of the greatest figures of the Civil War.
Battle by staggering battle, Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Lee and Grant -
complicated, heroic, deeply troubled men. From the costly Battle of the Wilderness to the agonizing
siege of Petersburg to Lee's epoch-making surrender at Appomattox, Shaara portrays the riveting
conclusion of the Civil War through the minds and hearts of the individuals who gave their last
full measure.
Full of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history, The Last Full Meiasure is the
fitting capstone to a magnificent literary trilogy.
War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In
the bestselling Gods and Generals Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling
the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings
this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion, in a novel that brings to life the final
two years of the Civil War.
As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal
year. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the
field yawns ever wider. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard-nosed leader. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in
command and turns the tide of the war.
For Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg was an unspeakable disaster- compounded by the shattering loss of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before. Lee knows better than anyone that the South cannot survive a war of attrition. But with the total devotion of his generals - Longstreet, Hill, Stuart-and his unswerving faith in God, Lee is determined to fight to the bitter end.
Here too is Joshua Chamberlain, the college professor who emerged as the Union hero at Gettysburg- will rise to become one of the greatest figures of the Civil War.
Battle by staggering battle, Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Lee and Grant -
complicated, heroic, deeply troubled men. From the costly Battle of the Wilderness to the agonizing
siege of Petersburg to Lee's epoch-making surrender at Appomattox, Shaara portrays the riveting
conclusion of the Civil War through the minds and hearts of the individuals who gave their last
full measure.
Full of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history, The Last Full Meiasure is the
fitting capstone to a magnificent literary trilogy.
Publication
Ballantine Books (1998)
Series
Original publication date
1998
Collection
Physical description
560 p.