{"id":499,"date":"2011-01-19T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:28:23","slug":"the-killer-angels-by-michael-shaara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-507 size-full\" title=\"The Killer Angels\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the-killer-angels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The format of this 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel of the Battle of Gettysburg is unconventional, alternating between the reflections of Northern and Southern soldiers, both high and low ranking. The result is a personal and compelling description of the battle that many historians see as a critical turning point in the ultimate resolution of the Civil War. Mr. Shaara&#8217;s son, Jeffrey, has written both &#8220;prequels&#8221; and a sequel to his father&#8217;s work, in the same conversational style. The Killer Angels will stand alone, or as part of the series, and will give you an understanding of war in a very personal way. Don&#8217;t be surprised if you want to read it again and again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The format of this 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel of the Battle of Gettysburg is unconventional, alternating between the reflections of Northern and Southern soldiers, both high and low ranking. The result is a personal and compelling description of the battle that many historians see as a critical turning point in the ultimate resolution of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}