The Killer Angels Fabulous insight into the military mind, the minds of men, the minds of people dedicated to a cause greater than themselves. Michael Shaara gives us a dozen characters worth caring about from both armies, and then plunges them into one of the most terrible things in America's history the "Battle of Gettysburg" The book is a great depiction on the American Civil War. The book is repulsing, the massive slaughter of "Americans by Americans" over human slavery. There was also a highly accurate portrayal of the action, and the command challenges at Gettysburg. "This is the story of the battle of Gettysburg, told from the viewpoints of Robert E. Lee and James Longstree