n during the three hellish days of the battle. "For the most part I read the old sources, original diaries, memoirs etc." "I've been accumulating the same type of material for my new research, mostly diaries and collections of letters." (Shaara) "The facts are almost one hundred percent dead on, which is pretty rare in historical fiction." (Caldwell) This book appealed to many people, it also made people think differently about the civil war. For instance a man named John Miller said, "It's a cliche to use the phrase, "history comes alive", but the words fit when talking about Shaara's work." Reading this book makes u feel like you are a part of the war or there at that time. It's just how he wrote the book
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