The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Introduction

This book is of a fictional story of a battlefield as narrated through the eyes of the general staff present there. It is a story generated of battle of Gettysburg and how things take place accordingly. The author here provides of how and where all of the happenings take place and the way they were observed. It relates to anything that conceded during the time of war. The battle of Gettysburg, according to the book itself covers a three day period of the entire scenario.

The combat is portrayed in such a style that it illustrates all of the players of the fight in agreement to how they were involved confidingly. The involvement of all the main players that were engaged during the entire plot is affirmed for the reader's attraction to comprehend and get implicated to the story (Michael, pp. 1-368). It has an overview of how the battle gives features of the behavior and the reaction of all the characters within. The comprehensive overview is elucidated of what was already not known about the battle of Gettysburg. It explores the insight on the focal spectacle of the ongoing occurrences from every second to the very moment at which everyone within the state of affairs had lived in.

The union and the confederacy are the chief, team players of which the clash takes place. It speaks about the way things held, and how each army had actually come into fierce contact with each other as soon as they discovered the other's involvement to them. The paradigm of the opponent participants are given a clear portrayal within the time period of the event.The Battle of Gettysburg

In September 1862, when General Lee and Stonewall Jackson were at Frederick, examining their maps, planning the battle at Sharpsburg, their attention was drawn to Gettysburg. Given the road net and its location relative to Frederick and Washington, they clearly could see that Gettysburg was the perfect point upon which to converge for a classic encounter battle. If the Rebel army could be thrown, like a fisherman's net, across the space between the South Mountain and the Susquehanna, reaching as far as Harrisburg to the north, and Wrightsville to the east, the Union army would be induced to conform in order to cover Washington and Baltimore (Bearss, pp. 53-60). As time passed, however, and the enemy did not advance to attack, appearing rather to be standing on the defensive near Gettysburg, the commander of the Union army would be induced by "Lincoln's politics" to move, however, tentatively, toward ...