![]() ![]() The younger Shaara, tends to focus on the sweep of history itself, so the characters serve as convenient literary devices for advancing the story. Sure, the battle of Gettysburg happens, but the novel is really about the characters. The major distinction between the Shaaras, though, is that The Killer Angels was a character-driven story. A Blaze of Glory will be the first in a trilogy that will cover Vicksburg and then “the final chapter of the war in Georgia and the Carolinas” (apparently Chickamauga and Chattanooga don’t matter, not to say anything of Stones River).Īs in previous books, Shaara adopts the technique used so well by his father, Michael, in The Killer Angels: looking at the sweep of history through the perspective of a few key characters. ![]() The Western Theater gets ignored so much that I was glad a writer in Shaara’s league was going to give it some attention. I had high hopes for A Blaze of Glory, which tells the story of the battle of Shiloh. I wouldn’t have known that, though, had I not forced myself to stick with it. By the time I was two hundred pages into Jeff Shaara’s new novel-roughly halfway-I wondered how an author could write so much and say so little. ![]()
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